i open my analytics once a day. for about thirty seconds.

most analytics dashboards want you to live inside them. tabs, segments, a report builder that takes longer than the work it is supposed to measure.

i open mine once a day. for about thirty seconds.

i'm om yaduvanshi, 18, an applied ai developer. i built cloudline, a cookieless analytics tool. day 32 now, two days past launch, and the check has settled into a shape.

what i look at first

the visitors over time chart, on one screen. did yesterday move, and in which direction. i do not need a reason yet. i need to know whether there is a reason to look further.

then top pages. which page got read. then traffic sources. search, social, newsletters, ai assistants, grouped. a source showing up that was not there yesterday is a thread to pull.

the second screen, only if the first one earns it

if a page moved, i check how far people got through it. scroll depth, in quarters. i check engaged time next to it. a page with a lot of visits and almost no engaged time is a headline problem, most of the time.

if a button matters on that page, i check its clicks. cloudline stores the label you chose for the button. nothing about the person who pressed it.

what i never open

i do not build a segment before breakfast. i do not compare seven date ranges. the dashboard is there to tell me what changed, and then get out of the way.

a pageview stores page, referrer, screen size, time. nothing else. no cookies. no ip addresses. nothing stored on a visitor's device. that is why the check stays short. there is nothing stored about any individual visitor to dig through.

the point of the check

open it, see what changed, get back to building. that line is on the site, and it is the whole product idea, as far as i am concerned.

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— om