Privacy-centric zero-tracking website analytics
Privacy-first web traffic analytics tool which anonymises personal and device pageview metadata, compatible with CNIL exemption->
Comparison
tinyvisits is a truly privacy-centric website analytics tool built from the ground up to fully anonymize personal and device data on the first touch
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tinyvisits.com
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No cookies, no fingerprinting, referrers truncated, timestamps truncated to day. Aggregated, purely stateless, irreversibly anonymous pageview counts stored in the database, opt-out available
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Compatible with GDPR and ePrivacy. Aligns with the methodology applied by authorities like CNIL for analytics exemptions
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"Privacy-friendly analytics" (other cookieless tools based on hash fingerprinting)
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No cookies, but use fingerprint hashing (IP address + browser data + website url + salt) to track unique daily visitors, hash salt typically rotated daily
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Not explicitly approved by regulatory authorities as fully compatible with GDPR and ePrivacy, whereby European supervisory authorities (e.g., EDPB, DSK) explicitly state that fingerprinting hashes require prior user consent under ePrivacy.
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Full User Analytics
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Use tracking cookies, store full user journeys and events, possibly cross-reference collected data with other third party data
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Compatible with GDPR and ePrivacy, legal basis based on valid, freely given, and granular user consent expressed through Consent banner. |
Data approach
tinyvisits avoids fingerprinting based on user's IP address and device metadata (such as browser version etc.). Processed pageviews are automatically split into anonymous statistical counts, which are impossible to be reversed and avoid any personal profile and/or device identification.
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Single page view event
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Split into separate statistical hits by url, referring domain, major browser, device, major operating system |
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IP address
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Only processed to lookup geo country name |
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Timestamp
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Truncated to day |
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User agent
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Truncated to 3 independent (disjoint) labels: major browser version, major operating system and device type |
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Website url address
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Standard url parameters such as ad platform campaign id's or UTM tags are automatically pruned |
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Referring url address
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Truncated to a domain |
More features
Legitimate Interest Assessment template for evaluating privacy impact of data processing, containing Legitimacy, Necessity and Proportionality tests.
Pre-assessment of the Data Processing Impact Assessment template for evaluating a conduct of analytical and statistical operations to improve the website’s value and performance.
A snippet which you can include in your Privacy policy to describe Purpose of processing, Legal basis and other features of tinyvisits's minimalistic pageview tracking.
Integration can be done by placing a simple and lightweight JS snippet into your page html template. Our JS snippet tracks page view counts events automatically.
tinyvisits provides and opt-out functionality so that your website visitor can opt-out of anonymous traffic count collection process.
You can request a full export of your website data anytime.
Compatibility
tinyvisits is engineered to turn pageviews into fully anonymous statistical traffic counts
| Data approach | tinyvisits' solution |
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| Measuring traffic level for single website |
Analytics are limited to a single website and are not used to combine, match or merge data from unrelated services
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| No tracking of visitors outside of single website |
UTM tags, ad network campaign and user identifiers are stripped from urls
Referring urls are stripped to just domains
No external data import is possible
IP address is processed temporarily only to obtain geo country name
No measurement of reach is possible
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| Measuring anonymous traffic statistics |
Dashboard graphs and tables contain anonymous statistical counts
No filters to single out specific users or segments are available
Statistical counts are rounded to nearest 10
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| Respecting visitor's opt-out preference |
Opt-out is available by providing an opt-out link (for example in Client's website Privacy policy)
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Pricing
- Minimalistic statistical pageview counts
- Data export
- DPIA pre-assessment template docs
- LIA template docs
Frequently asked questions
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What if my traffic suddenly spikes? Will I incur a large monthly bill?
Your monthly plan is automatically updated based on a mode of number of page views in last 3 months, i.e. taking the middle monthly value. Therefore, single and short visitor spike in a single month will not cause your monthly plan to be upgraded.
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Does tinyvisits create cookies/browser storage items when integrated on a Client's website?
tinyvisits' JS script, when integrated into Client's website, does not automatically create cookie IDs. The pageviews are sent without any cookie ID's. However, tinyvisits provides an opt-out functionality, which is implemented by tinyvisits' JS script by creating a small technical browser storage item, with a simple tinyvisits_optout=1 key value pair.
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Where is my data located?
Your data is hosted in European data centers, which are operated by selected leading industry cloud server providers. For a list of our data center providers, please see our Privacy policy ->.