What gets measured
I count visits to see what people read and where the site is slow or confusing. There are no ads, no profiles and no tracking across other sites, and nothing is sold.
For every visit, without asking, the site records:
- which page was opened, how long it was on screen and how far down it was read;
- the site you came from, and which share button you pressed, if any;
- your approximate country and the kind of device and browser, from the request;
- which page you're on while you have the site open, for a live visitor count.
To tell visits apart, the server mixes the date, your IP address and your browser's name into a one-way hash. It changes every day, so it can't follow you from one day to the next, and the IP address itself is never stored. Nothing is saved in your browser for this.
If you allow it
The first time you visit, the site asks whether it may remember your browser. If you say yes, it stores a random id in your browser so a visit next week counts as a return visit, adds you to the visitor counter, and records anonymised sessions (every text field is masked) that I watch to fix rough edges. Recordings and analytics go to PostHog, hosted in the EU. If your browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control, the site treats that as a no and doesn't ask.
Other things the site keeps
- Liking a post stores a random id in your browser, so you can take the like back.
- The terminal's leaderboard keeps the handle you pick, your score and your country, plus a random key in your browser that proves the handle is yours.
- Cloudflare Turnstile checks that visitor counts and scores come from real browsers.
Analytics events are deleted after 90 days. Questions, or want something removed? Write to work@abhashchakraborty.tech.