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Stats

Jant counts page views and shows them under Settings → Stats: views per day for the last 7, 30, or 90 days, the ten most-opened pages in that window (posts, collections, the home page, the archive), and the sites readers came from. Open any page in the list to see its own days and referrers.

The counts are the whole record. Jant stores nothing about any reader, sets no cookie, and adds no script to your pages. Counts older than 90 days are deleted. There is no lifetime total and no comparison with the window before.

While the day counting began falls inside the window, the total says since when, and the chart starts on that day.

What counts as a view

A view is a reader's browser opening a page: the home page, a post, a collection, the archive, /featured, or /subscribe. Feeds, search, and anything you open while signed in do not count. Neither do crawlers, link previews, and prefetches.

A post's number is how often its own page was opened. A note read on the home page counts toward the home page, not the note. The later pages of the home feed and a filtered archive count toward the home page and the archive. A post or a collection keeps its count when its address changes.

Referrers

A referrer is the site a reader followed a link from, reduced to its domain. The addresses a well-known site goes by are folded into one: old.reddit.com, redd.it and the Reddit app count as reddit.com, t.co as x.com, google.co.uk as google.com. A link tagged with utm_source or ref is filed under that tag instead, wherever it was opened: ?utm_source=newsletter counts as newsletter, ?utm_source=twitter as x.com, and ChatGPT tags the links in its answers with utm_source=chatgpt.com. An Android app that names itself counts as its site, or by its package name (com.example.app) when Jant does not know the app. Direct is a visit with neither tag nor referrer: a typed address, a bookmark, or an untagged link from an app, an email, or a feed reader. Most apps send no referrer, so Direct is usually the largest line. Other is everything past the ten listed.

Turning it off

Uncheck Count page views at the bottom of the Stats page. Counting stops and every count is deleted. The setting is STATS_ENABLED; see Configuration.

Limits

On Cloudflare, counting stops after 20,000 views in a day and resumes the next day. STATS_DAILY_LIMIT sets the number; 0 means no limit, and is the default with Docker. See Configuration.

Stats are not part of an export and do not move with a site.

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