Analytics Without Cookies
You can measure your website without a single cookie. This page shows what is actually being tracked, how the data is stored, and how to install BYOViral on any site in under 60 seconds.
By BYO Team
Last updated May 17, 2026
What "without cookies" actually means
A cookie is a small string stored by your browser that the analytics platform can read on subsequent visits. Removing cookies means removing the persistent identifier. Visitor identity becomes a server-side, one-way computation that produces aggregate counts but cannot be reversed to identify a specific person.
What you can still track
Pageviews per page, unique sessions, top referrers, traffic source category (search vs direct vs social vs AI), country (from IP geolocation), browser, operating system, device, screen resolution, language, time on site, bounce rate, custom events.
What you cannot do
Follow the same visitor across devices, attribute purchases back to ads weeks later, or build long-term personalised funnels. If you need those, run BYOViral alongside GA4. Many sites do.
Installing BYOViral
Sign up, register your domain, copy the one-line script tag, paste it before . You will see real-time pageviews within seconds. The full setup guide takes longer to read than to do.
60-second install
One script tag. No SDK. No build step.
Real-time visibility
Sub-second refresh on the dashboard.
Cookieless by design
No banner, no consent friction.
Country + browser detail
Full visitor breakdown without identifying.
Public profile (optional)
Make your traffic proof public for trust + backlinks.
Free forever tier
Keep 100 visitor logs per site at no cost.
Frequently asked questions
Is this the same as Plausible or Fathom?
All three are cookieless analytics platforms. BYOViral adds public Traffic Proof, Global Stats network data, and 30+ SEO tools on the free plan.
Will I lose any tracking by going cookieless?
You lose cross-device visitor identity and multi-week ad attribution. You keep everything else: pageviews, sessions, sources, geo, devices, real-time activity.
Can I still see returning visitors?
Yes — within a 30-minute session window the fingerprint identifies the same visitor. Across longer windows there is no persistent identifier, so the same person revisiting next week counts as a new visit. This is intentional.