Counting visits

The Codex now counts visits, so I can see which pages are worth the most work: which dungeons people actually look up, and whether anyone uses the talent calculator. It sets no cookie, keeps no address, and cannot tell who you are or follow you to any other site.

What is recorded

Each visit records the page you opened, the site you came from, your country and rough area, and which browser, operating system and kind of device you are on. Nothing is stored on your device and no IP address is kept. Visits are counted against a code worked out from the request itself, and that code is thrown away after a day, so the same person coming back tomorrow counts as someone new.

The numbers reach me already added up. Nothing in them points back to a person, so I could not find your visit among them even if you asked me to.

The privacy page says the same

Until now the privacy page said the site ran no analytics at all. It now says exactly what is counted, what the counting cannot do, and which service does it, and it is linked from the footer of every page.

That page also promised to announce a change like this in the Updates panel, which is where this note first appeared. The panel has since been replaced by this blog.