Blog
Notes on privacy-first analytics, measured comparisons, and building a $1/month product in the open.
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GA4 finally has a native "AI Assistant" channel — here's what it still hides
GA4 added an automatic AI Assistant channel on May 13, 2026. It catches ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude — but Perplexity, AI Overviews and copy-paste clicks still slip past it.
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Show a view counter on every blog post — one script, no per-post setup
Add a live "views" badge to every blog post — one snippet in your post template, or a plain image URL per page. No per-post setup, all-time views, ~1 KB SVG.
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We measured how much JavaScript five analytics tools make your visitors download
Measured June 2026: Google Analytics ships ~140 KB of compressed JavaScript per visitor. Simplytics ships ~1.9 KB. Here are the numbers and how we measured them.
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How to see ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini traffic in your analytics (and why GA4 hides most of it)
AI assistants are a real referral channel now, but GA4 buries most of it in Direct. Here is how to recover the measurable part — with a custom GA4 channel group, or automatically.