Privacy

This site counts readers. Here is exactly what that means, in plain language.

Nothing is stored on your device

No cookies. No local storage. No session storage. Nothing this site does leaves anything behind on your machine, which is why there is no consent banner to click away: there is nothing to consent to.

What is recorded

When a page loads, the site records the page you opened, its title, where you came from if the referring site chose to say, the campaign parameters in the link if it had any, your screen and window size, your time zone, your language, whether you prefer dark mode and reduced motion, and a rough connection type.

How visitors are counted without identifying anyone

Counting unique readers normally requires tagging the device. Instead, the server combines your IP address, your browser’s user agent and a secret that changes every day, and keeps only the resulting hash. Your IP address is discarded immediately and never written down. The daily secret is deleted after three days, and once it is gone the stored hashes cannot be traced back to anyone, including by me.

The cost of doing it this way is real: I cannot tell whether you have visited before, on this device or any other, and I never will. That is the trade, and I would rather have it this way.

If you have Global Privacy Control turned on

Nothing is sent at all. Not a reduced record, not an anonymous ping. The script checks and stops.

Who sees this

Nobody but me. The data sits on a machine in my home, not with an analytics company. It is not sold, shared or fed to anything.

The code that does all of this is open source and you are welcome to check that it does what this page says.