What counts as a scan?

Every time the address of one of your tracked links is opened, one scan is counted. It makes no difference whether a phone camera read its QR code, someone tapped the link in a message, or clicked it in an email.

What is counted

• Every opening, including the same person opening it again.
• Your own openings too, such as scanning a new code to test it.

What is not counted

• The preview a chat or social app makes when a link is pasted into a message.
• Automatic visits from search engines.
• Your card's plain address, and the QR code drawn on your card itself. They are not tracked links, so opening them counts as a view of your card instead. See Views, contact saves and scans: what each number means.

For each scan we keep the day and the country it came from, never who scanned. A scan tells you somebody opened the link; whether their phone then opened your card, or they wrote to you, is in the other numbers. See Seeing what each link is doing.