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Quick Start

About three minutes from sign-up to live tracking. For more detail on any step, follow the linked pages.

1. Sign up

Create an account at statable.com. Two options:

  • Email OTP (one-time password). Enter your email, we send a 6-digit code that's valid for 10 minutes. Paste it back, you're in. No password to remember.
  • Google OAuth. The fastest option if you already use Google products. Pick your account, review the permissions Statable asks for, confirm. No password to set or remember.

2. Pick your plan

Right after sign-up, Statable asks how you want to start:

  • Start 30-day free trial. For any website. Full features for 30 days, no credit card. The default for most users.
  • Apply for free access. For .edu, .github.io, and .gitlab.io sites only, with permanent free analytics. Requires installing one of our public widgets (live counter, globe, or map) on the site as attribution.

Pick whichever fits, then continue.

3. Add your website

Click Add website. Enter your domain without https:// or www, e.g. example.com. Pick a timezone, save.

After saving, open site settings → General → Tracking Code to grab your ready-to-paste snippet (the site identifier is already filled into data-id). For more options like public dashboard or naming, see Add your first website.

Site identifier label

The exact label of the per-site identifier in the dashboard may differ from "Site ID". Use the snippet from Tracking Code as-is rather than trying to copy the value by hand.

4. Paste the script

Add this to the <head> of every page you want to track. Replace YOUR_SITE_ID:

<script src="https://statable.com/js/YOUR_SITE_ID/s.js" defer></script>

Done. The script is ~2.5 KB gzipped and loads asynchronously, so it won't block your page. Full options and framework guides: Install the tracking script.

5. Verify

Open your dashboard, switch to Realtime. In another tab, visit any page on your site. Your visit should appear within seconds.

If nothing shows up after a minute, the usual culprits are: script in <body> instead of <head>, a typo in data-id, or an ad blocker on your own browser (your visitors still get tracked, only you are blocked locally). Full checklist: Verify your installation.

What you get automatically

  • Pageviews, including SPA navigation (history API and hash changes).
  • Engagement time and scroll depth per page.
  • Outbound link clicks to other domains.
  • File downloads (PDF, ZIP, DOC, and other common types).
  • Traffic sources, UTM parameters, referrers.
  • Device, browser, OS, country.

For metric definitions, see sessions, pageviews, and unique visitors.

Next steps

  • Define Goals to measure conversions.
  • Track button clicks and form submissions with Custom Events.
  • Embed public widgets on your own site (globe, map, live counter). See the Widgets section.
  • Import historical data from GA4 with the Migration tool.

Issues during setup? See Verify your installation.

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