privacy

site-counter collects as little data as possible.

What we collect

• Page path — e.g. /blog/post-1
• Referrer domain — e.g. news.ycombinator.com
• Device type — desktop, mobile, tablet, or bot
• Screen width bucket — e.g. ≤480, 481-768, etc.
• Language tag — primary language from browser settings
• Country code — from IP address lookup (the IP itself is never stored)
• Timestamp — date and hour, rounded to the minute
• Time on page — bucketed into ranges (e.g. 5-15s, 1-3m)

What we do NOT collect

• ✗ IP addresses — parsed in flight for country lookup, discarded immediately
• ✗ Cookies — none set by the tracking script or pixel
• ✗ Unique visitor IDs — no fingerprints, no UUIDs, no localStorage
• ✗ User-agent strings — parsed to device type, raw UA discarded
• ✗ Full referrer URLs — only the domain is retained
• ✗ Query parameters — page paths are sanitised, params stripped
• ✗ Browsing history — each page view is an independent counter increment

How data is stored

All analytics data is pre-aggregated into counters. There are no per-request rows, no individual visitor profiles, and no way to reconstruct a single person's browsing history from the stored data. Counters are bucketed by site, date, and dimension value (e.g. path, referrer, device type).