The visitor book, three editions

Most visitor counters pay for their numbers in surveillance — trailing people across the web to gather them. Flatlytics keeps the guest book without the shadowing: it notes who came and what they read, then lets them leave without a tail.

It has been rewritten three times over the years, each edition lighter and surer than the last, always guarding the same promise — once a visit is noted, it is never lost — and always insisting the charts be things an ordinary person can actually read.