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Read it Answering a subject access request in one commandLive demonstration
A year of traffic, in a real WordPress admin.
An ordinary WordPress site with Honest Analytics installed and a year of traffic behind it. Open every report, change the date range, and read the numbers the way you would on your own site. Nothing here is a screenshot.
Watch yourself arrive
- Read a couple of the articles below. Your visit is counted the same way a real one would be.
- Open the analytics and go to Real-time. You are the session on the screen.
- Give it a minute, then look at Pages. The articles you opened are in the list.
Real-time reads live sessions rather than stored reports, so when nobody is on the site it is empty. That is a real site behaving correctly, and it is left that way.
No cookie is set to do any of this, and nothing about your visit leaves the server.
Every screen unlocked
A full year of history
Refreshed twice a day
Read-only account
No sign-up
What you can look at
THE REPORTS
- Traffic over any range, down to the hour for the past fortnight.
- Pages, posts, categories and authors, ranked by whatever you like.
- Where visits came from, on what device, from which country.
- Campaigns, events, goals, funnels and crawlers, each on its own screen.
WORTH TRYING
- Switch the range to Last 12 months and watch the chart redraw.
- Open a page in the Pages report to see just that page over time.
- Export any report as CSV or JSON. The button is on every screen.
- Read the Privacy screen, which lists exactly what is stored.
The history behind these reports is sample traffic, generated so the screens have a year to show. Your own visit is counted for real, alongside it.
The account you will be using
The button above signs you in as a shared read-only user. It can open every report and export any of them, and it can do nothing else: no settings, no plugins, no users, no posts. The Settings screen is not hidden from it, it is closed to it, which is a different thing.
Something to click on
These are the pages the traffic is attributed to. Open a few, then go and find them in the reports.
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