One week of privacy-first analytics

Plausible has been running for a week now. No cookies, no tracking scripts, no consent banners — just a 1KB script that tells me what pages people visit and where they come from. After seven days of real traffic data I can see which service pages get the most attention, which notes people actually read, and how long they stay. The whole analytics dashboard fits on one screen. No funnel analysis, no cohort segmentation, no heatmaps. Just the numbers that matter: visitors, page views, referrers, devices. Half the traffic is mobile, which validates every hour I spent on the mobile-first rebuild. Screen size distribution confirms the touch target work was worth it. Bounce rate tells me whether the landing page is doing its job. This is what analytics should be — a simple answer to a simple question. Who visited, what did they look at, and did they stick around. Everything else is noise.