Pulse

The site counts. Here is the whole of what it counted.

This page shows you the same numbers we look at. There is no second dashboard with your name on it, because there is no name, and there is no account to hang one from.

Four things make this worth doing at all.

Counting readers is the one place this site collects anything. It ships on four conditions, and if any of them stopped being true the counting would stop with it.

The numbers are public.

Everything above is what we see. Nothing is held back for a private view. If a figure would embarrass us to publish, that is a reason not to collect it rather than a reason to hide it.

Nothing joins to a person.

Your browser makes up an id for itself and keeps it locally. With no accounts anywhere on the site, it attaches to nothing and nobody. No request here can return one reader's row — every figure on this page is a total, counted across everyone.

The address your device connects from is never stored.

The city in the list above is read at the edge as the request passes through, and the address that carried it is dropped on the spot rather than written down. It is not in a log, and it is not in the table these charts are drawn from.

Opting out is one press, and it is total.

It deletes the id, and it drops anything still waiting to be sent rather than delivering it on the way out. If your browser already asks sites not to track, this one never started. No third party sees any of it either — there is no vendor here, and no pixel.

Read these as roughly right, not as evidence.

The address these events are posted to is open. It has no key and no limit on how fast it can be called, so anyone willing to post to it can push these figures around, and we would not necessarily know. That is the price of a counter nobody has to sign in to read. Treat the shape as real and the exact numbers as approximate, and do not cite them anywhere that matters.

Two more honest notes about the figures themselves. Every window starts at midnight UTC and ends with today still in progress, so the last day on the chart is always short — the labels are UTC dates, not your local ones. And the platform filter changes every panel except the web and Apple TV split, which always shows the whole picture so the filter has something to be read against.

None of this is a target. Nothing on this site is built to bring you back, and no number above is allowed to change what gets written. It is here because a site that counts you and will not show you the count has already decided something about you.

Would you rather not be counted?

Then say so, once, and it is done. You will not be asked again, there is nothing to confirm, and nothing here will try to talk you out of it. The site works exactly the same afterwards.