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Analytics, UTMs and ad pixels

What Visib records on every visit, how UTMs are added to the destination, and how to fire GA4, Meta, Google Ads, TikTok and LinkedIn tags on your links.

Updated 2026-08-18 · 5 min read

What gets recorded

Every visit stores the country and city, the device and browser, the host the click came from, the channel it belongs to (direct, organic search, organic social, referral, campaign, paid search) and any UTM parameters the visitor arrived with. CTA clicks and conversions are recorded separately from visits, which is the distinction that tells you whether the problem is your link or your offer.

No IP address is stored. Only the referrer's host is kept, never the full URL — the path of somebody else's page can contain a session identifier or what a person searched for.

Bots are not visits

Paste a link in Slack and Slack opens it to build the preview. So does the crawler, and so does your uptime monitor. Those requests are recorded with a bot flag and kept out of your totals, and reporting shows how many were filtered out over the last 30 days.

UTM builder

Set source, medium, campaign, term and content on a link and Visib appends them to the destination, so the site you are sending people to sees the campaign properly. This is separate from the UTMs a visitor arrives with, which are recorded as-is.

Ad pixels

You can fire your own tags on every visit to your links, which builds retargeting audiences out of people who clicked something you shared — without touching the destination site.

  • Google Analytics 4 — G-XXXXXXXXXX
  • Meta Pixel — 15 or 16 digits
  • Google Ads — AW-XXXXXXXXXX
  • TikTok Pixel — the 20-character ID from TikTok Ads
  • LinkedIn Insight Tag — your numeric Partner ID

Set them once in Settings → Tracking & Retargeting to apply to every link, or per link when you create it. A per-link ID always wins over the account default.

Frequently asked

Do you store visitors' IP addresses?

No. Country and city come already resolved from request headers, the user agent is reduced to device and browser, and only the host of the referrer is kept — never the full URL, which can carry session IDs or search terms.

Are bot visits counted?

No. Chat unfurlers, crawlers and uptime monitors are recorded separately and excluded from your totals. The reporting page tells you how many were filtered out.

Per-link or account-wide pixels?

Both. Settings holds your defaults, and any link can override them with its own IDs.

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