Simplytics

Opt out of being counted

Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser and, unless the site has switched this off, Simplytics sends nothing at all. The script stops before it makes any request, so nothing about your visit reaches us.

Simplytics sets no visitor cookies, but it briefly stores a keyed daily hash that links your visits to one site on one day, and some page paths or event names can identify a person. You can opt out without asking anyone or paying anything.

How to turn it on

It is a published web standard, and it works on every site that honours it, not only ones using Simplytics.

Two limits

On a site that offers its own switch

Some sites add a “Don't count my visits” link. It stores one flag, simplytics_ignore, in that site's browser storage, with no identifier, and the script then sends nothing from that site, even if the site has switched off the Global Privacy Control check.

The flag only covers that site in that browser; www. and the bare domain count as separate sites. Safari can delete it after seven days of browsing without you interacting with the site, clearing site data removes it, and it cannot be set where the browser blocks site storage. Turn on Global Privacy Control to cover other sites too.

If you run a site: add that switch

A site relying on the UK PECR “statistical purposes” exception needs a simple, free way for visitors to object, and the ICO says a browser setting alone is not enough. Put a switch where visitors see it, such as your footer, and in your privacy notice:

<button type="button" id="simplytics-optout">Don't count my visits</button>
<script>
document.getElementById('simplytics-optout').addEventListener('click', function () {
  try { localStorage.simplytics_ignore = '1'; window.location.reload(); }
  catch (e) { this.textContent = 'Your browser blocks site storage, so this switch cannot work here.'; }
});
</script>

If your Content-Security-Policy blocks inline scripts, move the script lines into one of your script files; in React or Vue, run them from the button's click handler. To be counted again, run localStorage.removeItem('simplytics_ignore') in the browser console on your site. The same flag keeps your own visits out of your stats.

Not being counted on simplytics.dev

We count visits to our own public pages with Simplytics too. Global Privacy Control stops that, and so does this switch, which stores the same simplytics_ignore flag in this browser:

It works on simplytics.dev only, because each site keeps its own browser storage.

What we did not do

There is no form here that stops counting everywhere. It could not reach the sites you visit, and it would need an account, an identifier or a cookie, which Simplytics does not collect. The privacy policy sets out what is collected when you are counted.