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Last updated: June 10th, 2025

StandingPad.org measures page traffic with a self-hosted instance of GoatCounter, which is open source under a modified version the European Union Public License. We have a more in-depth privacy policy specifically for analytics goes in depth, but here’s the gist.

Every unique visitor is considered the same individual for 8 hours. Afterwards, GoatCounter will consider an individual to be a different person. Cookies are not used for analytics, only IP addresses (which are hashed when stored to reduce traceability), and all information is anonymized and can not be traced back to an individual for GDPR complience (see here for more details).

  • None of the information collected can be used to personally identify you
  • No information is shared with 3rd parties
  • All data is collected from the browser

The following information is collected and retained:

  • Visited Page
  • Referrers (where the page was visited from)
  • Screen size
  • Browser, Operating system, Device (desktop, mobile, etc), and screen size
  • Country and language

Goatcounter Instance Information

The self-hosted instance of Goatcounter is ran with binaries directly from upstream, on a cloud server from Hetzner, located in Helsinki, Finland. The sha256 checksum and version of the Goatcounter binary as of writing is the following:

Terminal window
$ sha256sum ~/bin/goatcounter
bb753bad7cdf9d75b8f1a5183a570dcdcc8705f2419ab40698f4c752796d6567 ~/bin/goatcounter


$ ~/bin/goatcounter version
version=v2.7.0; go=go1.25.5; GOOS=linux; GOARCH=amd64; race=false; cgo=true