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Your faq says that "Umami does not use any cookies" so how do you get the count of Visitors on your geo breakdown part of the report?

• yorwba 5y ago
  By combining the request's IP, user agent and OS to create a unique session ID: https://github.com/mikecao/umami/blob/f8ac987bfc0df581721bd2c9b0b9d9555698c346/lib/session.js#L35 https://github.com/mikecao/umami/blob/f8ac987bfc0df581721bd2... This will undercount some visitors and overcount others, but it should be good enough for most purposes.
  • esrh 5y ago
    This is unfortunate in a way because it's easy to deny cookiee but hard to spoof all of those
  • kevinbowman 5y ago
    Interestingly, the OS is detected from the user agent, so really it’s only hashing the IP and the user agent.
  • lucasmullens 5y ago
    So an entire school district would be the same user? Seems reasonable for most cases, but if you're a website that's used a lot by schools or businesses, they might have every computer using the same user agent and IP.