Glossary

Terms that touch how ilolink works match its real behavior: sanitization strips scripts and freezes JavaScript to a static snapshot, analytics stay cookieless and approximate, and rendering happens on an isolated origin under a strict policy.

AI output

Anything a chatbot produces for you to keep or send — Markdown, HTML, a code block, a file, or an image — as opposed to the throwaway chat around it.

Artifact (Claude)

Claude's name for a self-contained piece of work it renders beside the chat — a document, an app, or an HTML mockup — that you often want to share as its own page.

Canvas (ChatGPT)

ChatGPT's side-panel workspace for editing a document or code in place, producing output you can copy out and publish elsewhere.

Static hosting

Serving a fixed page whose files don't change per request and run no server-side logic, which is exactly what a shared piece of AI output needs.

Self-contained HTML file

A single HTML document that carries its own CSS and assets inline, so it renders on its own without pulling in external scripts or stylesheets.

Sanitization

Cleaning untrusted markup before it's served — ilolink drops scripts and JavaScript, freezes interactive behavior to a static snapshot, and keeps the CSS so the page still looks right.

Content Security Policy (CSP)

An HTTP header that tells the browser what a page is allowed to load and run; ilolink serves shared pages under a strict default-src 'none' policy on an isolated render origin.

Cookieless analytics

Measuring readership without setting a cookie or building a fingerprint — ilolink uses a short-lived rotating visitor hash, so there is no cross-site profile.

Scroll depth

How far down the page a reader got, bucketed at 0/25/50/75/100%, read like a funnel to see where attention drops off.

Heatmap

A visual overlay of where readers clicked or how far they scrolled, with hot zones showing attention and cold zones showing what got ignored.

Unique views (approximate)

An estimate of how many separate people opened a page — approximate by design, because the privacy-preserving visitor hash rotates rather than pinning anyone down.

Visibility mode

The access setting on a shared page — public, unlisted, private (teamspace members only), password, or expiring — that controls who can open it and for how long.

Edge hosting

Serving a page from data centers close to each reader instead of one central server, so it loads fast worldwide; ilolink runs on Cloudflare's edge.

GEO (generative engine optimization)

Shaping content so AI answer engines can find, quote, and cite it accurately — the generative-search counterpart to traditional SEO.

Anchored comment

A reader's note attached to a specific spot in the shared document and threaded there, so a reply sits next to what it responds to instead of in a separate inbox.

Further reading

• Core Web Vitals — the load, interactivity, and layout-stability metrics behind a fast page.
• Content Security Policy (MDN) — how the CSP header restricts what a page may load and run.
• Cloudflare docs — the edge network and platform ilolink serves pages from.
• Anthropic / Claude docs — reference for Claude and its artifacts.
• OpenAI docs — reference for ChatGPT and its canvas.