This feature is only available in the Pro version of Independent Analytics.
Since website analytics are used to measure visits from anonymous guests, recognizing them over long periods of time is difficult. How long Independent Analytics is able to recognize the same visitor depends on a few factors.
If a visitor accesses your site from a different device, browser, or IP address, they will not be seen as the same visitor.
For this reason, visitors are often recognized during the same day and even over a few days, but recognizing the same visitor over months is extremely unlikely.
You can set the salt token to refresh every day if you want to ensure visitors can’t be recognized for more than 24 hours for privacy reasons.
There is little that can be done to improve how long visitors can be recognized while adhering to a privacy-friendly policy. In fact, even if cookies were used, visitors still would not be recognized if they changed browsers or devices, or simply cleared their cookies.
When analyzing your user journeys, understand that if you see a few sessions over the course of the week, this user may have accessed your site from another device, browser, or IP address as well. And it is possible that they first visited your site months ago, but have since changed their device, browser, or IP address.
