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Cookieless analytics, goals and funnels

Installing the snippet, what's measured, how privacy works and how your own runs are kept separate.

Lesson
1/3
Reading time
8 min
Sections
4
Through the course
33%

Analytics is included on every plan for verified websites. Paste the one-line snippet into the head of every page and press Check installation. Single-page app navigation is tracked automatically.

Step by step

  1. 1Paste the snippetOne line in the head of every page.
  2. 2Check installationPress Check installation to confirm data is arriving.
  3. 3Add goals and funnelsEnquiries, sign-ups or purchases, and the steps leading to them.
  4. 4Filter by clickingClick any row, such as a source or page, to filter the whole dashboard.

Privacy by design

The script sets no cookies. Visitors are counted with a hash that changes every day and can't be reversed; IP addresses are never stored, and a visit is tracked per browser tab only. Add data-respect-dnt to skip visitors who ask not to be tracked.

Check your understanding

Which of these does Analytics store?

What you get

  • Visitors, visits, pageviews, bounce rate and visit duration against the previous period.
  • Sources, channels, referrers, campaigns, pages, entry and exit pages, locations and devices. Click any row to filter the whole dashboard.
  • Goals with conversion rates, step-by-step funnels and revenue from custom events.
  • Page speed from real visitors at the 75th percentile.

Real visitors only

Visits from search that land where a Serpfull run clicked are matched and left out of your figures, and known crawlers and automation are filtered out, so the numbers show real people.

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Cookieless analytics, goals and funnels