Add your first website
Register the site you want to track. Under a minute.
Step 1: Click "Add website"
From the main dashboard, click Add website in the top-right corner. New accounts land here automatically right after signup.
Step 2: Enter your domain
Use the bare domain. No protocol, no www, no trailing slash.
- Correct:
example.com - Correct:
blog.example.com - Wrong:
https://example.com - Wrong:
www.example.com/
Subdomains are tracked as separate sites by default. To combine example.com and blog.example.com into one dashboard, see the hostname allowlist in site settings → Blocklist → Hostnames.
Step 3: Choose a timezone
This controls how days are bucketed in charts. "Today" means midnight-to-midnight in this timezone, not the visitor's local time.
Pick the timezone where you actually read reports, usually your own. You can change it later, but past data won't be re-bucketed.
Step 4: Optional settings
- Public Access. Make analytics visible to anyone with the link. Useful for transparency, open-source projects, or client sharing. Off by default. Toggled in site settings → General → Public Access.
- Site name. Defaults to the domain. Change it for a friendlier label in your sites list (e.g. "Acme Marketing Blog" instead of
blog.acme.com).
All of these can be edited later in site settings → General.
Free Trial vs Free Access
Two free tiers, applied automatically based on the domain:
- Free Trial. Any domain. Full features for 30 days. Then pick a paid plan or downgrade to a limited free tier.
- Free Access. Permanent free hobby plan, only for
.eduacademic domains and.github.io/.gitlab.ioproject pages. Detected automatically. Hobby installs ship analytics bundled inside a public widget — pick the widget under Site settings → Widget.
Check the badge next to your site name in the sites list to see which applies.
What you get after creation
Two identifiers:
- Site identifier. The
data-idvalue baked into the tracking script. You'll paste this into your snippet on the next page. - Site hash. Used by embed widgets like the live visitor globe or top-countries widget.
Both surface inside site settings → General → Tracking Code and on the install page.
Identifier labels
Field names for these identifiers in the dashboard UI may differ from the wording above. Always copy the prebuilt snippet from Tracking Code rather than re-typing values by hand.
Next: install the script
For metric definitions before you install, the encyclopedia covers sessions, pageviews, and unique visitors.
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