How we measure this website
We count page views ourselves, on our own server. No analytics company is involved, no cookie is set, and nothing about your visit is sent anywhere else — which is why this measurement needs no consent banner.
For each page view we record the page address, a rough device type (desktop, mobile or tablet) and the country our hosting reports. To tell one visitor from another within a single day, we store a one-way hash of your IP address and browser combined with a secret value that is replaced every midnight and then discarded. The hash cannot be reversed, and yesterday’s cannot be recalculated or matched against today’s — so your visits cannot be joined into a history, by us or by anyone else.
Within that single day, the pages seen under one hash stay in the order they were viewed, so we can see which route through the site someone took. That sequence ends at midnight together with the secret it depends on, and the individual entries it is built from are deleted after 35 days.
When you arrive on the site, and again when a page is fully reloaded or a new day begins, we also note where you came from, as one of six channels (an ad, a search engine, an AI assistant, a social network, another website, or none if you typed the address or used a bookmark), together with the name of the referring website, such as google.com. We record only that name: never the address of the page you came from, never what you searched for, and never the identifier an ad attaches to the link. That identifier is checked in your browser and never sent to us.
Your IP address itself is never written to disk. Individual entries are deleted after 35 days; only the daily totals are kept. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in knowing which pages are actually read (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).