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Notes on the product. A few guides for people leaving GA4.

MCP for Claude and Cursor, the read API, first-party install, goals, a week next to Google Analytics, and where the rows live. Not a resource centre of forty posts. The method page is the engineering version.

Tutorials

  1. Two brass speaking-tube horns on a harbour-paper desk, joined by a thin linen cord.

    Tutorial · 26 August 2026

    Ask Claude about your pageviews: Cookie Free Analytics MCP

    Hosted MCP at /mcp. OAuth 2.1 in Claude and Cursor, or the hashed bearer. Ask about visitors, pages, sources, and live — no cookies, no visitor hashes. Starter and Growth.

  2. A brass key on an open envelope, a blank ledger, and a fountain pen on harbour paper.

    Tutorial · 26 August 2026

    The dashboard as JSON: Cookie Free Analytics read API

    Starter and Growth mint a hashed bearer. GET the same visitors, pages, sources, live, and Growth funnels you already see. No visitor hashes. Not a user graph.

  3. Two envelopes on a harbour-paper desk — one by the window, one on the ledger.

    Tutorial · 25 August 2026

    Where Cookie Free Analytics actually stores pageviews

    Beacons hit Frankfurt. Pageviews sit in Ireland Postgres. Vercel is still a US company. How to check the split, and what leaves the EU when someone signs in.

  4. A small house mailbox on bone plaster — the note goes into the house, not a distant box.

    Tutorial · 25 August 2026

    Serve /cf.js from your hostname so list blockers miss it

    Tutorial: Path rewrite or a c. CNAME — one method, not both. Why a 301 on the snippet is a gift to blockers. How Cookie Free Analytics issues TLS.

  5. An open thank-you card on harbour paper, tied with lichen-green thread.

    Tutorial · 25 August 2026

    Count a signup with cfa() — events are not billed

    Tutorial: add a thank-you URL, fire cfa('signup'), and match the event name in Goals. Cookie Free Analytics does not add named events to the pageview volume.

  6. Two notebooks on a desk: one thick with tabs, one thin linen pamphlet.

    Tutorial · 25 August 2026

    Leave Google Analytics on. Add a 1 KB script. Compare totals.

    Tutorial: dual-run Cookie Free Analytics next to GA4 for seven days. The gap is consent and blockers, not a migration of BigQuery. Keep GA if you need ads audiences.

  7. A cream card with an open-ring cutout sliding across a harbour-paper table.

    Tutorial · 25 August 2026

    Share a dashboard with a client — not a white-label stack

    Tutorial: invite a viewer, or turn on the public /s/… link and embed. Cookie Free Analytics has team seats on the plan. It does not theme the dashboard as your agency.

Notes

  1. Consent · 28 September 2026

    Analytics Without Consent: What EU Sites Can Still Count After Reject

    What EU WordPress and Shopify sites can still measure when visitors reject cookies: cookieless pageviews, a dual-run checklist beside GA4, and a ~1 KB script.

  2. Consent · 14 September 2026

    Google Analytics Alternatives After Reject: Observed Hits vs Modeled Gaps

    Google Analytics alternatives after Reject: observed pageviews vs Consent Mode modeled gaps. Dual-run checklist, no invented recovery %. GDPR long-tail.

  3. Watch · 31 August 2026

    The client should not be the first to know

    Watch is HTTP, TLS, and DNS on a hostname you already added. Frankfurt and Dublin. A public status page. On Starter and Growth — not a second product.

  4. Consent · 17 August 2026

    A reject click is not a missing visit

    Cookie banners and blockers hide pageviews from Google Analytics. Cookieless analytics still counts the load. We count the landing, the source, and the named goal — not ROAS.

  5. Product · 17 August 2026

    What a 1 KB analytics script actually sends

    The Cookie Free Analytics script stays under 1 KB gzipped. Here is every field, and what the server adds without storing an IP.

  6. Compare · 17 August 2026

    You probably wanted pageviews, not a property ID

    Google Analytics is built for ads identity. Cookie Free Analytics is a 1 KB script and one dashboard. When to keep both.

  7. Methodology · 17 August 2026

    How to count a person for one day without a cookie

    Cookies and fingerprints are out. Referrer-only “visitors” undercount. A daily rotating hash counts one person today and forgets them tomorrow.

  8. Pricing · 17 August 2026

    Free analytics should not expire in 30 days

    Cookie Free Analytics Hobby is the dashboard with a badge, 90 days, and 3 sites. Starter and Growth take the badge off — events are not extra.

  9. WordPress · 28 August 2026

    WordPress analytics without MonsterInsights cookies

    Upload the WordPress plugin, or paste a 1 KB cookieless script. First-party is a c. CNAME. No banner for this script.

  10. Price · 28 August 2026

    Plausible vs Cookie Free Analytics on published prices

    Same cookieless job. Starter is €4 at 10k pageviews. Events are not billed. Competitor lists dated 18 August 2026.

  11. Migrate · 28 August 2026

    Run next to GA4 for a week before you rip anything out

    Leave Google Analytics on. Add a 1 KB cookieless script. Compare pageviews, not users. No historical import. No invented lift.