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21 visits, 14% wrote something.

Last 7 days. A visit is one browser tab: close it and the count starts over, because nothing is stored to recognise you by. That makes these numbers a little high, and it is the trade we wanted.

What people write

14 sentences so far: 0% of them asked a question, 8% picked up a word from the sentence they replaced, the middle one is 20 characters long.

More of them begin with “test” than with any other word.

2 people have lost the page and come back to take it again. 12 sentences were replaced by the same person who wrote the one before.

From opening the page to writing a sentence

Opened the site21 · 100%Started typing3 · 14%18 dropped off herePressed send3 · 14%Got a sentence up3 · 14%

Counted per visit, not per click, so somebody who writes four sentences still counts once. The gap between typing and sending is the one worth watching: those are people who wanted to and then did not.

Where they came from

direct20com.google.android.go…1

“direct” means no referrer at all: a bookmark, an app, or somebody typing the name. Only the hostname is kept, never the full address, because search pages put the query in there.

Which countries

Netherlands13United States2Singapore1

On what

phone9desktop7tablet5

Taken from the width of the window, not from the browser’s user agent. That string is long enough to recognise people by, and this is not meant to.

How long they stayed

Median visit: 6.0s

under 10s2210s to 1m51m to 5m4

Measured on 31 visits that reached the end cleanly. A tab killed by the system never reports back, so treat this as a floor.

Losing, and telling people

Watched someone else take over: 6

Watched their own sentence go: 1

Median time those sentences stood: 1m 09s

Clicked a share link: 4

400 shares per 100 people who lost a sentence. If that number is low, the moment is reaching them and the button is not.

Where they share

Copied the words, rig…1Copied the words, fro…1Copied the link, from…1Posted it on Bluesky,…1

Busiest pages

/what-people-do12 · 11 visits/9 · 6 visits/design/letter3 · 2 visits/stats3 · 3 visits/design1 · 1 visit/design/gum1 · 1 visit/design/potlood1 · 1 visit/ai-summarizer1 · 1 visit

Day by day

2307-2707-28

Visits per day.

Everything, counted

Closed the tab: 31 (19 visits)

Opened a page: 31 (21 visits)

Looked at the front page: 24 (12 visits)

Watched someone else take over: 6 (3 visits)

Started typing: 6 (3 visits)

Pressed send: 5 (3 visits)

Went straight to the front page: 5 (3 visits)

Clicked a share link: 4 (2 visits)

Opened a permanent link: 3 (2 visits)

Wrote another one: 2 (2 visits)

Watched their own sentence go: 1 (1 visit)

No cookies were set to count any of this, and none of it is shared with anyone. Other windows: 1d · 7d · 30d · 60d