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We also use Vercel Speed Insights to measure real page-load performance, on the same cookieless basis.
We also use Google Analytics 4 to understand how the directory is used — which pages people visit, how they arrived (for example, from a search engine), and roughly where they are. Unlike Vercel Analytics, Google Analytics does set cookies in your browser (named _ga and _ga_ followed by an ID) to tell one visit from the next. Google receives your browser and device details, the pages you view, and your IP address, which it uses to estimate your general location; Google states that Google Analytics 4 does not log or store IP addresses. We see this only as aggregated reports — not as a record of you personally.
We do not run advertising pixels, and we do not sell visitor data. You can block Google Analytics by refusing or clearing cookies in your browser, by using a content blocker, or with Google's Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. Blocking it does not affect anything you can do on this site. How Google handles this data is described in How Google uses information from sites that use its services.