Our reach.
In the open.
See how readers discover Independent, which stories they explore and where our audience connects from. Recorded figures, clear definitions and no invented reach.
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What these numbers mean
- Visits are recorded entries from an external website or a direct link. They are not unique people or timed browser sessions.
- Page views are events sent after a public page has been visible for about two seconds. A reader can create several views. Blocked scripts or early exits may not be recorded.
- Countries come from Cloudflare connection geolocation. VPNs and proxies may affect the location. Unknown locations are listed separately.
- Known bots and rapid repeated events are filtered, but automated traffic cannot be completely excluded. Dates use UTC; today is incomplete. Public figures are refreshed once per day, on the first request after 00:00 UTC (03:00 Moscow). Visits continue to be recorded between updates.
- No tracking cookies, stored raw IP addresses or permanent browser identifiers are used. Short-lived salted network hashes limit abuse. Only aggregate counts are made public.
Source: Independent’s own audience counter, hosted on Cloudflare and stored in Cloudflare D1. This is not a public export of the Cloudflare dashboard. We do not currently report unique visitors, reading time, bounce rate, bandwidth, cache rate, security events, Core Web Vitals or subscriber totals here.
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