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Public ledger

Everything we count, in public.

Most sites watch you and don't say so. Here is the entire list of what this one collects. It is short on purpose.

What we store

One thing: how many times each page has been loaded. That's the whole table below. We keep a running count per page in a plain text file, and nothing else.

What we don't store

We skip obvious bots so the numbers mean something. Deciding “is this a bot” happens in memory and is never written down.

The numbers

47 page views counted across 11 pages since the counter went up.

PageViews
/ 24
/research/overdrive-amplify/ 7
/research/ 4
/research/follett-shinyhunters-claim/ 3
/research/librar-labs/ 2
/exhibits/ 2
/about/ 1
/method/ 1
/research/what-your-library-pays-overdrive/ 1
/research/book-ban-ai-compliance-market/ 1
/research/baker-taylor-libraryone/ 1

This page reads the same file the counter writes to. There is no hidden second copy.