How this site is measured
Two counts, both without asking and neither with a cookie. There is no banner because nothing here needs your permission, and one switch, at the foot of this page, stops both.
Page counts
Each time a page here is opened, this site’s own server notes which page it was, and whether the browser said it was a robot. That is the whole note: no network address, no device or browser details, nothing that could tell one visitor from another. Each note is deleted after 48 hours; what stays is the number of times each page was opened on each day.
Umami
Umami is analytics software I run myself, as my own installation hosted in London, not a service that sees other websites. It records the pages you visit and in what order, the site that brought you here (its address only, never anything after a question mark), your approximate location (country, region, town or city), and your device, browser, operating system, screen size and language.
Your network address is used to work out your location and to group your page views into a visit, and is not stored: Umami keeps a scrambled code made from it and your browser, which changes every month, so the same device looks like a new visitor in each new month. Umami sets no cookie, and your browser never contacts it directly: its script and what it sends both go through this site’s own address. Nothing it records is sold, shared, or used for advertising. I keep it for 25 months; anything older is deleted automatically every night.
Umami does not run on this page, and it stays off if your browser asks sites not to track it (Do Not Track).
What is not here
No advertising or campaign tracking, no Google Analytics, no Meta pixel, no Tag Manager, nothing that follows you to other sites and nothing that recognises you when you come back. The typefaces and the picture are served from this site too.
Who else sees it
Vercel, which runs this site and the Umami installation, and Neon, which holds the databases both counts are kept in. They work on my instructions and use neither for anything of their own.
Why the law allows it
My legitimate interest in seeing which pages are read and where something is broken (UK GDPR, Article 6(1)(f)), and the exception for a site’s own statistics in the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations (Schedule A1, paragraph 5), which lets a site count without asking so long as it says so, which this page does, and gives a free way to object, which is the switch below.
Objecting
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Unticking the box saves one cookie, stats_objection, for a year, so this site remembers that you said no. It holds nothing else. While it is there, neither count includes you. Ticking the box again deletes it.