{"id":305,"date":"2026-07-30T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/q\/305"},"modified":"2026-07-30T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T09:40:00","slug":"do-view-counts-use-cookies-or-send-data-anywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/q\/305","title":{"rendered":"Do view counts use cookies or send data anywhere?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No, and no. Everything stays on your own site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>No cookies<\/strong> are set for counting.<\/li><li><strong>No external service<\/strong> is contacted \u2014 nothing leaves your server.<\/li><li><strong>No visitor records<\/strong> are stored. There&#8217;s no log of who read what, only a running total per question.<\/li><li>Repeat views from the same visitor within an hour count once, using a short-lived salted hash that expires by itself. Raw IP addresses are never stored.<\/li><li>Known crawlers and bots are excluded, so the numbers reflect people.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because nothing personal is stored and no cookies are set, view counting doesn&#8217;t require a cookie consent banner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, and no. Everything stays on your own site. No cookies are set for counting. No external service is contacted \u2014 nothing leaves your server. No visitor records are stored. There&#8217;s no log of who read what, only a running total per question. Repeat views from the same visitor within an hour count once, using a short-lived salted hash that\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[30,31],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-page-views","tag-page-views","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faqtorytheme.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}