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fieldnotes.blog · Traffic

Traffic

Overview

30 Aug – 28 Sep 2026

Visitors
22,418Unique visitors
Pageviews
41,6851.9 per visitor
Time on page
1m 42sMedian
  • Visitors
  • Pageviews
  • Average
  • Incomplete

Busiest day — Wed 16 Sep, 2,294 visitors

  1. 3 Sep · Ada LovelaceSent the September newsletter
  2. 16 Sep · Ada Lovelace“Why we stopped using cookies” reached the front page of Hacker News
Visitors and pageviews by day
dayVisitorsPageviews
Sun 30 Aug6811,090
Mon 31 Aug9371,725
Tue 1 Sep8891,537
Wed 2 Sep8871,267
Thu 3 Sep1,0251,414
Fri 4 Sep9161,515
Sat 5 Sep5511,019
Sun 6 Sep6561,102
Mon 7 Sep9531,328
Tue 8 Sep9051,276
Wed 9 Sep8461,442
Thu 10 Sep1,0761,987
Fri 11 Sep8541,389
Sat 12 Sep607830
Sun 13 Sep583845
Mon 14 Sep1,0771,886
Tue 15 Sep7801,429
Wed 16 Sep2,2943,608
Thu 17 Sep9311,260
Fri 18 Sep1,0101,510
Sat 19 Sep509911
Sun 20 Sep6721,214
Mon 21 Sep9441,435
Tue 22 Sep9161,237
Wed 23 Sep8491,313
Thu 24 Sep1,0331,881
Fri 25 Sep9291,646
Sat 26 Sep556818
Sun 27 Sep632859
Mon 28 Sep (incomplete)570912

Referrers

SourceVisitorsShare of total
news.ycombinator.com
7,17432%
Direct / None
6,45629%
Google
3,13914%
DuckDuckGo
1,4356%

4 of 16 sources

Sample data for fieldnotes.blog, last 30 days.

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What we store for a visit11:00–12:00 UTC · rounded to the hour
Source
news.ycombinator.com
Country
Netherlands
Device
Tablet · Chrome
Visitor ID
Resets daily at 00:00 UTC
  1. Entry/
  2. +2 min/notes
  3. +6 min/notes/2026/08/the-slow-web
  4. +11 min/newsletter
EventsForm: Submissionnewsletter signup

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Journeys

PathVisitors
/ → /about → /uses
420
/notes/2026/09/why-we-stopped-using-cookies-and-what-happened-to-our-numbers-afterwards → / → /about
390
/ → /notes → /notes/2026/08/the-slow-web
350

3 of 6 journeys

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