Measure decisions, not people.

Production records aggregate page views through the first-party event endpoint described below. The page is represented by a normalized public slug; query strings are not sent. Production also sends cookieless page views to a private, self-hosted Umami service. The tracker runs only on ide.tools, honors the browser’s Do Not Track setting, and excludes query strings and URL fragments. Session recordings and heatmaps are disabled.

Umami records the page path and title, referrer, browser, operating system, device, screen size, language, and derived country. It creates anonymous sessions from rotating hashes of request and browser signals. It does not set analytics cookies, store IP addresses, or link visitors across websites. No account or distinct user identifier is sent by ide.tools. Production may also use Cloudflare Web Analytics for aggregate performance measurement. Cloudflare describes that service as privacy-first and cookie-free.

The site can record six aggregate events: a page view, opening a comparison, opening a guide, starting from the homepage’s primary decision, completing the stack builder, and following a vendor link.

Each event contains only its allowlisted name and a normalized public page or content slug. Query strings are never sent. The endpoint rejects extra fields. It does not store names, email addresses, account identifiers, search terms, quiz answers, full URLs, IP addresses, or browser fingerprints.

ide.tools sets no analytics cookies. Aggregate first-party events are intended for a 90-day reporting window. Umami data stays on private, self-hosted infrastructure until it is manually deleted. Cloudflare Web Analytics retention follows Cloudflare’s current service policy when that optional service is enabled.

Operational infrastructure may process ordinary request metadata to deliver and protect the site. See Cloudflare’s privacy policy for its role.