Hi, I’m running Matomo 4.12.0 on a new install from earlier this week.
I have checked the “Force tracking without cookies” on Admin: Privacy: Anonymize data, and also I have updated my tracking call with _paq.push([“disableCookies”]);.
When I visit a site where the tracker is installed, I can verify that no cookies are set.
I am aware that Matomo can not know if the visitor is unique since there are no cookies set, but instead relies on the config hash per https://matomo.org/faq/general/how-is-the-visitor-config_id-processed/.
After using this setup for a few days, I notice in the Visitors overview report that the number of unique visitors is equal to the number of visits on every single day.
I think it seems far fetched to believe that during the course of one day, every single visitor only makes one visit (or uses another device for their second visit etc).
I changed the “Anonymize visitors IP addresses” from 2 bytes to 1 byte, but this did not make much difference.
My assumption before doing these tests were that the unique visitors metric in the reports would be significantly lower than the real value, because Matomo would not be able to differentiate between two browsers with the same attributes. But instead it seems that Matomo just determines that every single visit is made by a unique visitor.
Are my results what should be expected or is something wrong with my setup?
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