you can throw your own analytics onto your site or if you have use cloudflare get the gist of it there as well.
posthog.eu and for example ahrefs web analytics for some GDPR solutions and umami which can be made gdpr i think - also have a look at pikapods
I've been using pirsch.io across webstudio and Wordpress sites, it's a nice experience.
Is there an embedded, privacy-conscious analytics solution that gives us a dashboard that can be shown in the client's website — so they don't have to log into another service to check their stats?
You can do something like unami and then iframe their dashboard results into a page you've created in Webstudio.
I have bought plenty of AppSumo products - tbh more than half of them get discontinued later on, unless it is a pre-established company
If you are looking for free options:
Umami is a great one, Also fathom
Both are GDPR / Privacy friendly
Some more options listed here
https://sundeck.studio/blog/google-analytics-alternativesI personally use usermaven - it's not free, but i like it's dashboard, easy to understand data, little more detailed than umami. PIxel whilelabeling feature etc
@Jacob , I purchased that a while ago. It's decent. @mustafasheikh makes valid points, I bought some SEO tools from appsumo and they have problems like getting blocked globally by Cloudflare. Umami is simple and open source with GDPR compliance. It's an easy route.
Just to clarify im not the OP. I was helping out. But thanks very much. I know appsumo sells some dubious stuff. @Jeremy have you tried squirrly seo ? There is a last call right now and i cant tell if its a good buy.
Sorry, I haven't tried that one. I did buy another one (Screpy), which is kinda neat but they are struggling to get approved by Cloudflare. This is problematic for any sites I'm using the cloud version of Webstudio with as Webstudio has a bunch of blockers of bots (rightfully so). I'd need to self-host each instance and then add their IPs to a whitelist in Cloudflare. It's not worth it to me. I'm sure other SEO scrapers will also run into this issue.
@Jeremy thank you for that info — truly useful.
The isues I have with most paid analytics services are:
1) COST
It adds up. When using a tool like Webstudio, because it is not an 'all-in-one' solution, the client can have a monthly cost that escalates quite quickly. Adding an extra $10/month for analytics can tip the balance...
2) EASE OF USE
Needing the client to go to yet another location, with another account, and handle another dashboard just to check their site's stats is really not user-friendly. Add to that the fact that we may already have to ask them to go to other sites to write their blog, update their CMS, check their SEO, etc.
That is why I was looking for a solution that would be inexpensive, and embeddable.
Cloudflare's analytics is already great - and free - but not embeddable...
@Igor Couto, 100%. I have the same concerns. When I look for software I often choose open-source options that I could self-host if the cost are too much. Here's how I do things:
- Find out if the self-hosted version has all the features that I need
- Setup self-hosting and try it out
- Setup a cloud account and try to export data into my self-hosted instance
- If I like the service and can justify the price, I will pay the monthly cloud service (it's way easier) and I know I have a backup if anything changes
Umami pro is $20/mth for unlimited websites. If you have a few clients paying you monthly, you can consider 1 of them covering this cost for everyone. Same with Webstudio, you would now need 2 customers paying you monthly to cover the cost of that stack.
Thank you for the thoughtful response, @Jeremy! Is Umami embeddable? - i.e., can we put its site dashboard inside a page in Webstudio, for the client to see?
i love the way we can write content in webstudio now so it will not offer much if using webstudio with notion to begin with ... but as a standalone with search and so on ...
Yep! You go into the settings and "enable share ULR" (see image). Then pop that url into an iframe src and there ya go!
I haven't. I'm not a blogger though.
This is where newbies, such as myself, get confused. I'm in the UK, which isn't part of the EU, but as I'm in the process of moving my website into Webstudio cloud (not self-hosted) and my CMS is a self-hosted version of Craft CMS using Arcustech (deployed in UK-South), which one do I pick?!
I think I've got GA4 on my current WordPress site, but not having a clue about GA4, I don't know if that'll ping across to the new build when I move the domain from WP into Webstudio. Or if the connection will break. The domain will be the same.
As a team of one there's so many things that I don't know and that I really don't want to get wrong and make a mess of things! It's also limiting because it's not like I can hire someone to help, I don't have that kind of income!
Since you’re based in the UK and your site and CMS are hosted in UK-South, your safest bet is to choose the EU region. Even though the UK isn’t technically part of the EU, EU data protection laws (like GDPR) are still largely mirrored in the UK, and picking the EU region usually means your data stays closer to home and under stricter privacy rules.
Wonderful, thank you! Super appreciate your answer, I'll pick EU
Me again with another Umami question - it wants me to add code to <head> - do I have to do this for every page, or can I use a head slot in my nav bar? ThankingYouMuchlyInAdvance
@Esme , there are 2 ways you can do this.
- Add code to an html embed within a slot and manually add it to each page (worst option)
- Add it into your "Project settings" (click the Webstudio icon when in a projec to find that feature) - image attached
Use method 2 and it will apply to the entire page.
Oooooooooooooooooo thanks love! Much appreciated!
