Privacy note
How this site measures visits, and what happens to the details you send us. Short and true.
- No cookiesfor measuring this site
- No third partiesno ads, fonts or outside trackers
- Our own servermeasured with Skald itself
- Sign-up dataonly to contact you about Skald
In short
skaldanalytics.com measures itself with Skald, on our own server. We see which pages are read and where visits come from. We do not use cookies to do it, and no outside company gets your visit.
What this site records
The server log
Like almost every web server, ours writes one line for each request: the time, the page, your IP address, your browser's name, and the page that sent you, if your browser says. Skald reads that log to count people, AI assistants, crawlers and bots. It is the method we describe on the features page.
The script tag
Each page also loads Skald's small script, /traffic-js/skald.js, from this site. It sends page views and clicks back to this site only. It sets no cookie, and it respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control.
What we do not do
- No advertising, and no selling or sharing of visit data.
- No third-party scripts, fonts or trackers. Every file on this site comes from this site.
If you sign up
The beta and free trial form asks for your name, work email, website and number of sites. We use them only to contact you about Skald, for example to set up your trial. We keep them on our own server and do not sell or share them.
The contact form asks for your name, email and message. We use them only to answer you, keep them on our own server, and do not sell or share them.
Both forms have one field that people never see. It is there to catch spam bots.
The "Is my site exposed?" check
When you check a site, our server reads that site's public home page once, like any visitor. The check service itself keeps nothing: the result is kept in memory for an hour, so a second check is instant, and then it is dropped. But like any web page, the address you open is written to our web server's log, and a result page's address includes the site you checked (/check/?url=…). That log is kept 14 days and read by our own analytics, Skald, which shows us which sites were checked. No cookies are set.
Downloading the PDF report
The result of a check is free on the page. If you download it as a PDF, we ask for your email and keep it, with your name and company if you give them, the site and the time, to know who downloaded the report and to follow up about Skald. If you tick "Email me when a new advisory matches my site", we also use your email for that, and only then; reply to any such email to stop it. The PDF is made in your browser from the result on the page; we send no email with it, and we ask for nobody else's address.
Links to other sites
Some links take you elsewhere, with their own privacy rules: the code, issues and releases are on GitHub, and the live demo is served by GitHub Pages.
Questions and requests
To ask what we hold about you, or to have it deleted, open an issue on GitHub and ask for a private way to reach us. Do not post personal details in a public issue.
Skald itself can delete one person everywhere with one command. Read more about who builds Skald, or see how to run it yourself.
Last updated 21 October 2026.
Live demo
Click around the real dashboard with sample data
Every section, 60 days of a made-up site. In your browser, nothing to install, no sign-up.
Hosted Skald
Start free. We set it up for you.
30 days free, no card. Your account is ready within one working day. Or run it yourself, free, with the install guide.