The best Google Analytics alternative for publishers in 2026What a content site needs from analytics, where GA4 falls short for publishers, and how to choose an alternative: privacy, sampling, real time, AI traffic, price.10 November 2026How to track AI traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity and GeminiHow visits from AI assistants reach your site, how to recognise them from the referrer and utm_source, what to measure, and how to get cited more often.10 November 2026How to measure clicks from Google AI OverviewsAI Overview clicks arrive as plain Google search traffic. What Search Console shows, what the text-fragment signal tells you, and how to track it.10 November 2026Traffic dropped? A 15-minute checklist for publishersA step-by-step checklist to find out why your site's traffic fell: tracking problems first, then sources, pages, Google updates, Discover and technical issues.10 November 2026How to measure Google Discover traffic accuratelyWhy Discover traffic hides in "direct" and "referral", how to recognise it, what Search Console misses, and which numbers to watch daily.9 November 2026Cookieless analytics and GDPR: what publishers should knowHow cookieless web analytics counts visitors without cookies or stored IP addresses, why it usually needs no consent banner, and what is still your responsibility.8 November 2026Why GA4, AdSense and Ad Manager never show the same pageviewsWhy analytics pageviews and ad impressions disagree — consent, ad blockers, bots, lazy loading, time zones — and how to compare them.7 November 2026Page RPM and session RPM explained for publishersHow to calculate page RPM and session RPM, why session RPM is the better number for content sites, and how to raise it without hurting readers.6 November 2026How to track authors and categories in WordPress analyticsSend author, category, article ID and publish date with every pageview from WordPress, then compare writers and sections fairly by readers, time on page and sources.5 November 2026Bounce rate and time on page: what they mean for publishersWhy a high bounce rate is normal on article pages, how time on page is measured, and which engagement numbers tell you whether readers actually read.4 November 2026Real-time analytics for news and content sites: a guideWhat a newsroom should watch in real time, how to spot a story taking off, and how to turn live data into decisions in the first hour after publishing.3 November 2026Multi-site analytics: track many websites as oneHow publishers with several sites or subdomains can see total traffic, compare sites and still drill into each one, without merging tracking or losing detail.2 November 2026