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📊 Site Analytics Dashboard

Built: 2026-04-13, redesigned 2026-04-16
URL: aguidetocloud.com/site-analytics/
Status: ✅ Live — fully public, no password
Accent: Steel #64748B
CSS Namespace: .siteana-*
Body Class: page-site-analytics

What It Is

A public transparency dashboard showing real usage data for aguidetocloud.com. Visitors can see tool popularity, traffic trends, and content statistics. All data is anonymous — no cookies, no personal data.

⚠️ This is the PUBLIC page. The private decision-making dashboard is at /cc/ — see Command Centre.

Architecture

┌──────────────────────────────────────────┐
│              DATA SOURCES                │
├──────────┬──────────┬────────────────────┤
│   GA4    │   GSC    │   Custom Tracking  │
│ Data API │ Queries  │   /api/track       │
└────┬─────┴────┬─────┴────────┬───────────┘
     │          │              │
     └──────────┴──────────────┘
                │
       ┌────────▼────────┐
       │   /api/stats    │
       │   ?range=30d    │
       └────────┬────────┘
                │
       ┌────────▼────────┐
       │ /site-analytics/│
       │  JS inline in   │
       │  template       │
       └─────────────────┘

4 Public Tabs

Tab What visitors see
Overview 30-day trend chart (views + users), top countries, traffic sources, devices, transparency note
Tools Full leaderboard (all tools) with sparklines, activity doughnut, content stats (tools/blogs/prompts/certs)
Pages Top 20 pages, top blog posts
FAQ Standard Q&A from front matter

What's Shown vs Hidden

Shown (public) Hidden (private → /cc/)
Views, users, sessions (30d) YouTube analytics
WoW change badges Morning Brief, Health Score
Tool leaderboard with sparklines Auto-insights, Action Queue
Countries, sources, devices Growth tab, Goals, Before/After
Top pages + blog posts SEO opportunities, Content Gaps
Content stats 2×2 Matrix, Movers

Stats Bar

5 metrics always visible: - Page Views (30d) — with WoW badge - Unique Users — with WoW badge - Sessions — with WoW badge - Today — current day views - Free Tools — dynamic count from toolkit_nav.toml

API

The page fetches /api/stats?range=30d which returns: - ga4.totals — views, users, sessions - ga4.today — today's views - ga4.wow — week-over-week comparison - ga4.trend — daily views/users for 30 days - ga4.leaderboard — all tools ranked by views - ga4.tool_trends — per-tool daily data (top 10, for sparklines) - ga4.countries, ga4.devices, ga4.sources - ga4.top_pages, ga4.blog_pages

Response cached for 5 minutes server-side. Auto-refreshes every 5 min client-side.

Files

File Purpose
content/site-analytics/_index.md Front matter + FAQ
layouts/site-analytics/list.html Template with inline JS (no separate JS file)
static/css/site-analytics.css Styles (historical — includes old V1/V2 styles)

History

  1. V1 (Apr 13): Basic 4-tab dashboard, password-gated, custom event tracking
  2. V2 (Apr 16): Intelligence overhaul — 8 tabs, date ranges, milestones, insights, YouTube, growth, SEO, matrix, sparklines, goals
  3. V3 (Apr 16): Split into public + private. All decision-making features moved to /cc/. Public page stripped to 4 clean tabs, password removed.

⚠️ Critical: Two Analytics Pages

/site-analytics/ /cc/
Purpose Public transparency Private decisions
Access Open to all Password-gated
Shows Basic metrics + tools Everything + YouTube + strategy

NEVER add private features to the public page. NEVER link /cc/ from anywhere.