The page itself has no tracking script, sets no cookies, and makes no third-party request. But the site is served through Cloudflare, which produces aggregate traffic statistics from the requests it handles — and I do look at them. That is analytics, so it belongs on this page rather than being quietly left out.
There is no consent banner because nothing here needs consent. Nothing on this page can identify you or follow you anywhere.
What the site itself does
- No analytics script. No page-view beacon, no session tracking, no tag manager.
- No cookies. The only thing stored on your device is your light/dark theme
preference, kept in
localStorage. It is not a cookie, it is never sent to a server, and it is only written if you press the toggle. - No third-party requests. Fonts are served from this domain. No CDN scripts, no embeds, no social widgets, no ad network.
- No accounts, no forms, no comments. There is nothing here that could collect a name or an email address.
What the infrastructure sees
A request passes through three companies before it reaches you. Each one sees it, in the ordinary way any web host does:
- Cloudflare — DNS and proxy. It terminates the connection, so it sees every request: your IP address, the page, your browser’s user agent, and the country you’re in. It gives me an aggregate dashboard — requests, popular pages, countries, referrers, bandwidth, blocked bots. This is the analytics I have. It is counted at the edge from requests, not from anything running in your browser, and it puts nothing on your device.
- Fastly — the CDN GitHub Pages uses to serve the files.
- GitHub Pages — the origin, where the site is hosted.
Cloudflare also switches on Network Error Logging, which asks your browser to report failed requests back to Cloudflare. Successful page loads are not reported.
What I can’t see
- Who you are. There is no identifier tying one visit to another.
- Anything about you across other sites or devices.
- Individual reading behaviour — how far you scrolled, what you hovered, how long you stayed.
The honest summary: I can tell that a page was popular last week and roughly where readers came from. I cannot tell that it was you.
Third parties
If this changes
If I add a proper analytics tool it will be a cookieless one, and this page will say which, before it ships.
This site previously ran Google Analytics behind a consent banner — badly: the tracker loaded before the banner appeared, so declining did nothing. Both have been removed, along with the Google Fonts request that fired before the banner was ever shown.