Updated at: 2024-09-16.
We do not track people across their devices and across websites and apps that they visit. All the data is isolated to a single day, single website and single device only. There is no way to know whether the same person visits a site from more than one device or visits another website.
The goal of Tadmetrics is to track overall trends in your website traffic, it is not to track individual visitors. We don’t use cookies, we don’t generate any persistent identifiers and we don’t collect or store any personal or identifiable data. All of the data is aggregated data only and it has no personal information.
By using TadMetrics, all the site measurement is carried out absolutely anonymously. We measure only the most essential data points and nothing else. All the metrics we do collect fit on one single page.
Counting unique visitors is an integral part of web analytics. TadMetrics attempts to strike a reasonable balance between de-duplicating pageviews and staying respectful of visitor privacy.
We do not attempt to generate a device-persistent identifier because they are considered personal data under GDPR. We do not use cookies, browser cache nor the local storage. We do not store, retrieve nor extract anything from visitor’s devices.
Every single HTTP request sends the IP address and the User-Agent to the server so that’s what we use. We generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User-Agent.
Using IP addresses to count visitors is remarkably accurate when compared to using a cookie. In some cases it might even be more accurate than using a cookie because some visitors block cookies altogether.
The biggest limitation with this approach is that we cannot do good retention analysis. We cannot show stats like New vs Returning visitors because they rely on having a persistent user identifier.
If the same visitor visits your site Ten times in one day we will show that as one unique visitor. But if the same visitor visits your site on Ten different days in a month we would show that as Ten unique visitors.
When you use our service to measure your website stats, TadMetrics will collect information about your visitors. You entrust us with your site data and we take that trust to heart. The privacy of your site data — and it is your data, not ours!
By using tadMetrics, you keep 100% ownership of your website data. Although when using our hosted service, your site analytics are stored on our server in the cloud, you remain completely in control of your site data and you fully own all of your data too.
You own all right, title, and interest to your website data. We obtain no rights from you to your website data. We will never sell or share your site data to any third-parties.
You can choose to delete your account and delete your site stats at any time. We provide simple no-questions-asked deletion links.
All your stats will be permanently deleted immediately when you delete your TadMetrics account or when you delete your site stats. We cannot recover this information once it has been permanently deleted.
By using Tadmetrics, you don’t need to have any GDPR, CCPA or PECR prompts and you don’t need a complex privacy policy about your use of analytics and cookies. With TadMetrics, you are not tracking any personal data after all. Your visitors can enjoy your site without any annoyances and distractions.
You can sign up for a free lifetime account and explore our privacy-friendly and GDPR, CCPA and PECR compliant site analytics. You don’t need to remove your current analytics provider either until you’ve tested us and figured out if you like our service.