Introduction
What sonex counts, what it deliberately does not, and how the pieces fit together.
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sonex answers one kind of question well: what is happening on my website, and did the thing I changed make money? It counts visits, shows them in realtime, breaks them down by page, source, device and country, lets you build funnels and goals on top, and — once you connect Stripe or Polar — plots revenue beside all of it (Revenue).
It does that without cookies, without fingerprinting, and without storing personal data. There is nothing to consent to, so there is no banner to add.
The three pieces
- The tracker. One script tag, roughly 3 kB, that you paste into your site’s
<head>. It sends a small event when someone views a page, and whenever you ask it to. Core Web Vitals ride in a second file the tracker fetches only if you opt in (Install the tracker). - Your website in sonex. Each site you measure has a website id. The tracker puts that id on every event so sonex knows where it belongs.
- The dashboard. Everything you read: Overview, Realtime, Events, Sessions, Compare, Reports, Tracking, Settings.
What you can ask it
| Question | Where to look |
|---|---|
| Is traffic up or down? | Overview, then Compare |
| Is anyone on my site right now? | Realtime |
| Which pages and sources bring people in? | Overview breakdown panels |
| Who are my visitors, roughly? | Sessions |
| Did people do the thing I wanted? | Events and Reports |
| Where do people drop out of a flow? | Funnel in Reports |
| Did that campaign make money? | Revenue |
What it will not do
Being honest about the edges saves you time:
- No per-person profiles. Sessions are counted in aggregate. You cannot open a visitor and read their life story, because sonex never collected one.
- No cross-site tracking. A visitor on your site and the same visitor on someone else’s site are unrelated data.
- No precise location. Geography is country, region and city, derived coarsely. Never a pin on a map.
- No session replay. There are no recordings of visitor screens.
Words this documentation uses
- Event. Anything the tracker sends. A pageview is an event; so is a
signupyou fire yourself. - View. One pageview event.
- Session (or visit). One browsing sitting on your site.
- Visitor. One recognised browser, counted once no matter how many times it comes back inside the range you are looking at.
- Workspace. The account that owns websites and can hold teammates. Created for you during onboarding.
Concepts explains how those are counted, and why the numbers will not match Google Analytics.
Next: Quickstart, which takes you from nothing to your first recorded visit.