Privacy

I use Cloudflare Web Analytics to get a rough sense of how many people visit and which pages they read. It’s cookieless, it doesn’t follow you around the web, and it doesn’t know who you are. It just counts visits.

If you’d rather not be counted, any browser extension that blocks analytics will skip it. The site works exactly the same either way.

When you load a page, Cloudflare sees:

• Which page you opened
• The site you came from, if any
• Your country (nothing more specific than that)
• Your browser and operating system, in general terms
• Whether you’re on a phone, tablet, or desktop
• How long the page took to load

That’s really all of it. It’s the kind of thing that helps me notice “a lot of people are reading the WireTrace page this week” without ever having to know who those people are.

No name, no email, no precise IP, no cookies. Nothing that lets me (or Cloudflare) recognise you from one visit to the next. If you come back tomorrow, as far as the system is concerned you’re a new visitor.

If that ever changes — say, if I add a newsletter signup and you choose to share your email — this is the page where I’ll write about it first.

Just me. The dashboard lives inside my Cloudflare account. It’s not embedded on the site, not linked from anywhere public, and not shared with anyone else.

Cloudflare is a US-based company with servers around the world. If you want to read their side of this, their privacy policy is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy, and the page for the analytics product itself is at cloudflare.com/web-analytics.