Every short link keeps its own books from the moment it's created. No pixel on your page, no cookie on your visitor, no bot traffic padding the numbers, just honest counts of who clicked, from where, on what.
Picolink logs the click on the same hop that redirects it, throws out the noise, and rolls the rest into your dashboard. Nothing to install anywhere.
The short link is the tracker. A click is recorded by the same server that resolves the redirect: nothing to install, no pixel on your destination, no script in your visitor's browser.
Crawlers, link-preview bots and datacenter traffic are thrown out before they count. The IP is used to look up the country and check for bots, then discarded. It never reaches storage.
Each click adds a tick to a 15-minute bucket keyed by country, device, browser, OS and referrer. Open the dashboard and you see where things stand, current as of the moment you loaded it.
Most analytics buy precision with surveillance. We made the opposite trade: enough to be useful, little enough that there's nothing to leak.
Every click is recorded by the same server that issues the redirect. Your destination page does no extra work: no pixel, no SDK, no tag manager. Removing analytics is removing one link.
Nothing is written to the visitor: no cookie, no localStorage, no client-side script at all. Counts are based on the click, never on who made it.
Link-preview unfurlers (Slack, Discord, WhatsApp), search crawlers and datacenter traffic from the big clouds are filtered out at capture. They never reach a bucket, so your numbers are people, not pings.
It's used to resolve a country and run the bot checks, then thrown away. Only the country code survives to storage. The raw address is never written down.
Country, referrer, device, browser and OS, plus a click trend over time and totals split into total and unique.
A daily, per-link hash of coarse signals (masked IP prefix, browser family, TLS fingerprint, language) lets us dedupe repeat clicks without ever storing who someone is. It resets every day and follows no one across links.
The breakdowns are deliberately simple, which is exactly why they answer the questions teams actually ask. A few of them:
Give each campaign its own short link and read the referrers. The newsletter, the tweet and the partner post each keep their own count.
One code on a poster, one on a slide, one on a badge. Separate links tell you which surface people actually pointed a camera at.
Country and language breakdowns show you who's clicking from where, useful before you commit to a translation or a regional launch.
Cookie-free and aggregate by design, so you can measure links without a consent banner or a data-processing headache.
Analytics are on by default for every short link, on every plan. No tag to add, no consent banner to wire up.