Analytics and privacy

Updated November 11, 2026.

Article readership

This site uses first-party statistics to understand which project articles are useful. When an article is opened, the site records its public article path, the observation time, approximate country, referring website hostname, and broad browser and operating-system categories. Referrer paths, search terms, query strings and URL fragments are not collected by this article tracker.

Article statistics do not identify readers by name or email. The tracker sets no cookies and uses no local storage. The server temporarily processes the request’s IP address to estimate repeat visits within a UTC day. It stores a keyed hash that changes every day, combined with broad browser and operating-system categories, rather than the IP address or full browser user-agent string. These estimates can combine different people on a shared connection or count the same person more than once. They are not a count of identifiable people.

Article reports cover the last 90 days. Older observations are removed during the next daily cleanup when collection is active; inactive sites may retain them longer until collection resumes. Reports are restricted to the site’s authenticated owner. The article tracker respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control and ignores recognizable bots. Browser blockers, missing metadata, and network failures can leave gaps. The dashboard’s collection start date is shown explicitly; older visits are not reconstructed.

Other analytics

The site also contains Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics integrations. These are separate services with their own measurement methods and privacy practices. A script being present does not guarantee that historical reporting is available. See Google’s privacy policy and Vercel’s privacy policy.

Conveyor installation and Backlit download statistics are separate from article readership. Their request details can include a network IP address retained privately for up to one year. Anonymous website download totals do not identify people and do not prove that a download or installation completed. No printer passwords, Wi-Fi credentials, or device serial numbers are collected by these analytics.

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