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What counts as a scan?
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A scan is recorded whenever a code's short link resolves to its destination — a phone camera, a scanner app or a browser opening the link directly. Known bots and crawlers are flagged and excluded from the count shown on the dashboard.
Unique devices are tracked separately from total scans, using a hashed device signature rather than a cookie. Someone who scans the same code five times counts once toward unique devices and five times toward total scans, so a chart can show both how many times a code was scanned and how many different people scanned it.