The name is small on purpose
The -let at the end of Ginglet is the one in applet and booklet — it just means "small". There was never a plan to build something grand. Something that fits in one browser tab, roughly that size.
The looking-up happens in the browser you are reading this in. There is no server here that answers questions — a season of statistics comes down as one ordinary file and your own machine does the rest.
Why it is free, and why that is not a trick
Free tools usually make people suspicious, and they are right to be. So here is the arithmetic. A statistics site that answers queries from its own database pays for that database on every click — processor time, storage and bandwidth — which is why sites like that end up with accounts, rate limits and a tier where the interesting numbers live. These pages compute on your device, so a visit costs us nothing — one visitor or a thousand, the bill is the same. There is no free tier to run out of because there is no meter to read.
Concretely: a season is one small static file. Your browser downloads it once, and the sorting, the filtering and the name search are all things your own computer does to data it is already holding. That also means the second click is faster than the first — nothing has to be fetched again to re-sort a table, or to look at the same season a different way.
The page itself is paid for by ads. That is the whole business model, and it is why you will not be asked to sign up for anything.
Why build it this way
- There is no reason to make the round trip. Sorting a table, filtering it and searching a name are things a browser has been able to do for twenty years. Sending the question to a server and waiting for an answer is not a technical necessity; it is a business one.
- It stays fast, and it stays fast for everyone. Once a season is on your machine, re-sorting it costs nothing and waits for nobody. A page that queries a shared database gets slower exactly when it gets popular; this one cannot.
- No account, no install. Open it, use it, close it, and nothing is left behind. Building a sign-up form takes time that could go into the data instead.
How these get made
- I use them first. Each one starts as something that annoyed me, which is why the list is a bit unsystematic.
- Every tool comes with an explanation. What it does, how it does it, and — just as important — what it cannot do.
- Only what actually works ships. If a browser cannot do something, this site does not claim it can.
The articles that used to be here
Until August 2026 this domain hosted a Korean blog on unrelated subjects. When it stopped being one, all of that writing came down, and what replaced it is what the rest of this page describes.
Contact
Bug reports, numbers that look wrong, and advertising enquiries all go to admin@ginglet.io. If a statistic here disagrees with one you trust, that is worth an email — say which player and which season.