Dashboard
The dashboard at /app lists your websites and links to analytics, realtime, and settings for each project.
Website list
- Sign in with Google or GitHub at
/app. - Click Add website, enter your site name and domain.
- Copy the tracking snippet from Settings → Tracking code and add it to your site.
- Click your site card to open the analytics overview.
Site navigation
Each site has a sidebar with these sections:
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Overview | High-level project summary, setup checklist, and quick links to incomplete integrations |
| Stats | Metric bar, trend chart, breakdown grids (channels, pages, geo, device), and custom events |
| Realtime | 3D globe, live visitors, and active pages in the last 5 minutes |
| Bot Analytics | AI crawler and bot visit monitoring — see Bot Analytics |
| Search Console | Google Search performance — see Search Console |
| Domain Authority | Backlink tracking — see Domain Authority |
| Similarweb | Estimated traffic, ranking, and keywords from public Similarweb data |
| Settings | Tracking code, exclusions, integrations, sharing, and project management |
Statistics overview
- Top row: Visitors, Visits, Pageviews, Bounce rate, and Visit time with period-over-period change.
- Trend chart: daily pageviews and visitors. When Search Console is connected, toggle Search clicks on the same chart.
- Breakdown blocks: channel/referrer, top pages, country, and browser/device/OS.
- Custom events card: top tracked events for the selected period.
- A floating Live pill links to the realtime view when visitors are active.
Use the period selector to switch between 7-day and 30-day views. See Metrics for how each number is calculated.
Realtime view
- Rotating 3D globe with markers at visitor latitude/longitude (when geo data is available).
- Click a marker to see the current page, country, and device.
- Pause/play auto-rotation; zoom with scroll on desktop.
- Overlay panels: active visitor count, top countries, pages, devices, and recent pageviews.
Tip
The live visitor count reflects visitors active in the last 5 minutes. Geo data requires the tracker's IP lookup to succeed — it is cached per browser.
Public sharing
You can share a read-only realtime view without requiring sign-in.
- Go to your site's Settings → Sharing.
- Enable Allow public share link.
- Copy the share URL or embed an iframe on your site.
Tip
Public share links display the realtime globe and visitor list but do not expose your site key, settings, or other analytics data.
Privacy & compliance
Open Analytics is designed to be compliant by default — no consent banners required.
- Cookie-free by default — with
data-use-cookies="false"(the default), no cookies are set. Visitor identity uses a browser fingerprint hash. - Cookie mode optional — set
data-use-cookies="true"to store IDs in first-party cookies (oa_vid,oa_sid,oa_vst), similar to traditional analytics tools. - No personal data collected — visitors are identified by an anonymous fingerprint or random cookie value. This cannot be reversed to identify an individual.
- GDPR — fingerprint mode (default) does not set cookies and typically does not require a consent banner. Cookie mode may require consent depending on your jurisdiction.
- Do Not Track — enable
data-do-not-track="true"on the script to respect browser DNT settings.
Theme
Use the sun/moon control in the header to toggle light/dark mode. The globe and realtime backgrounds adapt to your theme preference.