True. I'm running off Gitlab pages right now so I don't control the webserver, although I could drop a tracking pixel in that loads off a server I do control.

True. I'm running off Gitlab pages right now so I don't control the webserver, although I could drop a tracking pixel in that loads off a server I do control. It does make it a little harder to determine new vs returning visitors though. Not impossible, but harder. To me, knowing that is more important because that's how you know you have an audience, versus just a bunch of people visiting from HackerNews, for example.