Measurement and transparency

Useful signals.
Not surveillance.

A site examining designed influence should not quietly build profiles of its visitors. Puppy vs Algorithms measures the performance of pages and tools—not the behaviour of identifiable people.

Planned production approach

Three deliberately limited signals

01

Cloudflare Web Analytics

Aggregate page views and referrers without cookies or fingerprinting. It will use the same hosting infrastructure as the site.

02

Google Search Console

Search queries, impressions, clicks and indexing information so useful pages can be found and maintained.

03

First-party aggregate counts

Totals for checklist downloads, completed route-finder paths, official outbound links and binary usefulness responses—without session linkage.

What we will not measure

The details belong to you.

  • No complaint text, URLs, filenames, images or attachment contents.
  • No connection between a visitor and the route they selected.
  • No per-user identifiers, cross-page journey profiles or fingerprinting.
  • No advertising pixels or social-media tracking pixels.
  • No complaint inbox, case-submission form or moderation queue.

The honest limitation

The meaningful outcome happens off-site.

We can count that somebody downloaded a checklist or opened an official pathway. We cannot know whether a report was filed, accepted or led to an outcome—and we will not claim that those proxy signals prove otherwise.

Measurable
Downloads, route completions, official outbound clicks, search visibility and newsletter retention.
Not measurable
Whether a report was submitted, whether a regulator accepted it or whether it produced a remedy.