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GetSite records a view every time a published page is served to a non-bot visitor. Nothing to install. Available on every paid plan.

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Where to look

Date ranges are 7 days, 1 month, 3 months and 1 year.

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What is measured

Site analytics also shows Conversions, as a total and a per-page column, for pages that have a conversion goal. Goals have no UI. Set one with PUT /v1/pages/PAGE_ID {"conversion_goal": {"enabled": true, "type": "click", "selector": "#buy"}}. type can be click with a selector, form_submission for any form on the page, pageview with a path, or custom, which counts when your page calls window.gsConvert() or dispatches a DOM event named event_name on document. A visit converts at most once. This needs an API key, so the Agency plan.

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How it works

  • Tracking is server-side on the page load plus a small script for time on page. Single-page navigation inside a page is not tracked.
  • A first-party cookie gs_visitor_<pageId> lasts one year. Analytics is not cookieless and the cookie banner does not switch it off.
  • Bots and GetSite’s own uptime monitor are excluded.
  • Drafts and previews are not counted.
  • New views can take up to an hour to appear. All-time totals update every 12 hours.
  • Raw views are kept for 30 days, then rolled up to daily totals for a year and monthly totals after that. Top-10 lists (referrers, countries, UTM) survive the rollup.
  • To stop recording for a site, set analytics_enabled to false with PUT /v1/websites/:id. API only; there is no switch in the app.

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Emails

  • Weekly site update every Monday morning: visits and form submissions (the email calls them leads) per site for the past week. Paid plans with a verified email. Skipped when nothing happened.
  • Milestones when a site passes 100, 1,000 and 10,000 visits.
Both are controlled by the Notifications switch in Account.