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Log ad-block visitors with reverse proxy tracking!
Slow, annoying ads are the top reason I've used ad-blockers for literal decades now. Many users care about the tracking/privacy aspect as well. I personally don't mind being tracked online, but I'm slightly biased.
Analytics used to slow down websites too, so ad-blockers block those services as well. Today, ads are still slow and annoying, but thanks to modern browser tech, analytics is almost completely unnoticeable. Many analytics services these days are also privacy-friendly by default — including Clicky, when we joined the bandwagon in March 2022.
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IPv6 update
IPv6 support is now live. Yes, this is extremely overdue. 17 years of technical debt, where it was assumed that every IP address was an IPv4 address, combined with a gigantic codebase, made this much more challenging than you would ever expect.
For reasons including privacy, storage size, and avoiding a massive database schema update, we're only saving the last 32-bits of IPv6 addresses – even if you have privacy disabled in your settings. There's a lot more info here about how we handle IPv6, if you care about the technical details.
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Privacy update: Cookie-free tracking is the new default
Plus new site preferences, Windows 11 detection, mobile hardware - and more!
We're happy to announce that our tracking is now 100% cookie-free by default, which means Clicky is now privacy-friendly out of the box. We mostly were before, e.g. we've been anonymizing IP addresses since GDPR became law, but tracking cookies were the one exception. You could disable them manually before, but now it's the default. (You don't need to update anything to get this new functionality, but you may want to double check your current privacy settings (see link above)).
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Two-factor authentication (2FA)
Two-factor authentication (2FA) is our latest major new feature, releasing today. 2FA helps protect your account against unauthorized access and potentially malicious actions by requiring verification via your account's registered email address. Configure 2FA for your account here.
2FA is required once per session, and can be set up in two ways:
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Big update for trends and graphs!
What started out as a small request to add an option to compare the same day of week instead of day of month from one year ago, ballooned into a much bigger project that took about 10 days of work. A lot of our code for graphs and trends is pretty old, so a large portion of this update was just cleaning that up significantly so future updates like this should be a lot easier.
Most websites have consistent patterns of traffic on each unique day of the week, or at least significant weekday vs weekend differences, so it makes sense that the day of week should always match when comparing the past.