siteline

lightweight website analytics focused on privacy

with such amenities as

• page views, unique visitors, referrers, top pages
• no cookies, fingerprinting or personal data
• host it yourself on pockethost or any vps
• a <1kb tracking script

so why wait any longer

backend

1. download pocketbase

2. run ./pocketbase serve

3. open http://127.0.0.1:8090/_/ and create admin

4. import the schema:

   • settings > import collections
   • paste the contents of backend/pb_schema.json
   • import

frontend

1. copy the frontend folder to your web server

2. update the api url in frontend/app.js:

   var API = 'https://your-pocketbase-url.com';

   or set it via localstorage:

   localStorage.setItem('siteline_api', 'https://your-pocketbase-url.com');

tracking snippet

add this to any site you want to track:

<script src="https://your-siteline-url.com/siteline.js" data-site="SITE_ID"></script>

the site id is shown in your dashboard after adding a site

pockethost deployment

1. create a free account at https://pockethost.io

2. create a new instance

3. import the schema from backend/pb_schema.json

4. deploy the frontend to any static host

5. update the api url to point to your pockethost instance

privacy

siteline is designed to be privacy-first:

• no cookies
• no fingerprinting
• no personal data collection
• respects do not track settings
• all data is stored on your own server
• visitor ids are random and stored locally

credits

made with love by mazz.digital