Statistics for websites and blogs

In the interest of preserving the privacy of the people visiting websites hosted on our servers, we run our own centralized platform for collecting website traffic analytics, and we rather wish you didn’t run your own.

The service we provide is designed to be minimally intrusive, and works by inspecting server-side anonymized logs, without running any code on the user’s browser or requiring any modifications to the website itself.

As a consequence, the data isn’t as accurate or detailed as what could be obtained with more intrusive methods. However, that data would be not representative in any case, given the widespread adoption of ad blockers in our userbase, so we feel that the trade-off is justified.

There is nothing special to be done to activate analytics for your website, it’s done automatically.

What data is available

We collect volumetric visit counts for website pages (excluding static content as best as possible), broken down by page, browser and device type. Data is collected with a daily time resolution.

• page is just the URL
• browser is the browser type, with a separate “Bot” category for any traffic that we might recognize as not coming from a real user (with some heuristics)
• device type captures the Desktop vs. Mobile classification

For every day, only the top 5 or so values for each breakdown are collected, due to limitations of the underlying storage architecture.

How to see your website analytics

For hosted websites

From your user panel, there’s an “Analytics” link in the website’s gear menu.

For noblogs.org

Follow the “Analytics” link in the main dashboard menu.