Documentation
Our documentation is a work in progress! Thanks for your patience.
NeatStats offers simple, lightweight, privacy-first web stats.
Privacy
We count views, not people. We don’t store IP addresses, we don’t use cookies, and we don’t track individuals or their behavior.
NeatStats focuses on privacy by counting views, not tracking viewers. We don’t do any fingerprinting, nor do we perform any behavioral tracking of any kind. Our pageview counter doesn’t set any cookies or use any browser local storage.
We only store the most basic information about the page view: the URL of the page, the referrer (if the browser provides one), the user agent header, and the GeoName. GeoNames are coarse indicators of location, usually aligned with the center of the nearest city. NeatStats doesn’t collect or store precise location information—only GeoNames.
Here’s a sample database entry, so you can see the data that we store:
| Item | Sample | How it’s used |
|---|---|---|
| URL | https://neatstats.net/ | This is the URL of the page that was viewed. |
| Referrer | https://social.lol/ | This is the URL where the link was clicked to view the page. |
| GeoName ID | 4299276 | This is the GeoName ID representing the rough location from which the page was viewed. These are coarse representations of location, generally tied to nearby city-centers. (This one is Louisville, Kentucky, USA.) |
| User Agent | Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/26.2 Safari/605.1.15 | This is the User Agent header, which provides information about the web browser. (This one is Safari running on macOS.) |
| Timestamp | 1768837753 | This is the UNIX timestamp of the page view. (This one is “Mon, 19 Jan 2026 15:49:13 GMT”.) |
NeatStats members can see which of their web pages were viewed, how often they were viewed, and by what web browsers. They can also view a map showing the GeoNames from which their pages were viewed.
NeatStats does not store any information about individual people, and no attempt is made to identify people through any of the data collected.
License & Credits
NeatStats uses the handy flag icons maintained by Panayiotis Lipiridis. (License)