How privacy-first analytics works

Created on 2 May, 2026 • Guides • 879 views

What UserMetric measures, what it deliberately does not, and how long anything is kept.

What we do not collect

No cookies, no fingerprinting, no cross-site identifiers. Visits are counted with a rotating daily hash that cannot be reversed into a person.

  • No personal data leaves your region.
  • IP addresses can be discarded entirely.
  • Every metric is derived from the request itself.

Retention

DataKept for
Aggregated pageviewsIndefinitely
Individual sessions90 days
Session replays30 days

Configuring it

Set ip_storage_is_enabled to off and IP addresses are never written to disk.

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