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Cookie-Free Analytics for Sites Without a Consent Banner

Consent banners get in the way of every first visit. They exist mostly because your analytics tool sets cookies and collects personal data. Remove that tool and the banner can go with it. That is the idea behind YourTraffic.

Why the banner is there

Under GDPR and PECR you need consent before setting non-essential cookies or processing personal data. Google Analytics and tools like it do both, which is what triggers the banner. It is the tracking method that creates the requirement, not the law being awkward.

How cookie-free tracking works

YourTraffic counts visits without cookies and without storing personal data. Visitors are counted with a rotating, salted hash that cannot be traced back to a person. You still get accurate visitors, pageviews, sources and countries, just without the identifiers that need consent.

Setting it up

Add your site, copy the one line script tag into your page head and remove the cookie banner that was only there for analytics. That is the whole change. Visits show up within seconds and the script stays under a kilobyte.

What you keep

For most sites the numbers that drive decisions are traffic trends, top content and where visitors come from. You get all of that at a glance, with a REST API and MCP server if you want to go deeper. Compliance with GDPR, CCPA and PECR comes by default.

Self-host it for free or run it in the cloud. One script tag in, one banner out.

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