If you have no tracking codes or analytics scripts embedded on your website, it becomes significantly more challenging for Google or any other third-party service to directly identify and track individual users visiting your site. However, Google may still gather some information through other means:
- Google Search Console: If you’ve added your website to Google Search Console, Google may have access to some aggregated data about your site’s performance in search results, such as the number of clicks, impressions, and average position. To be honest – they may still have this data if you havent added Search Console as well.
- Referrer Information: When a user clicks on a link from a Google search results page to your website, Google may receive referrer information. This information includes the URL of the page the user was on before visiting your site. While this doesn’t directly identify individual users, it provides Google with some insight into user behavior.
- IP Addresses: Websites typically have access to the IP addresses of visitors. While IP addresses can sometimes be used to infer the geographic location of users, they do not directly identify individual users.
- Browser and Device Information: Google may collect anonymized data about the devices and browsers accessing your website, which helps them improve their services but doesn’t identify individual users.
- Network Data: Google may also collect data from its various services and products, such as Chrome browsers or Android devices, but this data is generally aggregated and anonymized.
Without tracking codes or explicit user data collection mechanisms, Google would not have detailed information about individual users visiting your site. However, they may still have some limited insight based on the factors mentioned above.
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