Scan statistics explained

What we count as a scan, what each chart shows, how to export the numbers, and what we never store about the people who scan.

Every dynamic code counts its scans. Open Analytics for all your codes together, or open one code in your dashboard to see just that one.

What counts as a scan

A scan is one person opening your code. Search engine crawlers, bots and the link previews that chat apps make when someone pastes the link are skipped, so they do not inflate your numbers.

Scans that are stopped by a rule, for example before a scheduled start date or after the scan limit, are not counted as scans either.

What you see

Number or chart	What it means
Total scans	Every counted scan in the chosen period
Unique scanners	Roughly how many different people scanned, counted per day
Trend	This period compared with the period just before it
By day	Scans per day as a line chart
Time of day	Which hours your code gets scanned most
Countries and cities	Where scans happen, based on the network the phone uses
Devices, systems, browsers	Phone or tablet, iOS or Android, and the browser that opened the page

Switch between the last 7, 30 or 90 days at the top of the page. Locations are approximate: a phone on mobile data can show up in a nearby city.

Export to a spreadsheet

Use the CSV export on the analytics page to download the scans for the chosen period. It opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.

Privacy

We never store the IP address of anyone who scans. To count unique scanners we keep a one-way hash that changes every day, so a person cannot be followed from one day to the next. More in our privacy policy.

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Updated 2026-11-14