Dashly Blog

Practical guides on web analytics, privacy, GDPR compliance, and revenue attribution. No fluff — just what works in 2026.

Bot traffic inflates your analytics by 30-50%. Here is exactly how to detect and filter bots, AI crawlers, and scrapers from your web analyt...

A complete guide to cookieless analytics: how it tracks visitors without cookies, why it does not need a consent banner, and how it captures...

A step-by-step guide to migrating away from Google Analytics 4. How to export your data, choose a replacement, install the new snippet, and ...

Most startups track vanity metrics. Here are the 7 metrics that actually matter for early-stage startups, how to set them up, and which tool...

Most analytics tools show traffic but not revenue. Here is how revenue attribution works, how to connect your payment processor, and how to ...

Session replays can violate GDPR if they capture personal data. Here is how privacy-safe replay works, what to redact, and which tools are c...

70% of your traffic is "dark social" — shared in private messages, Slack, email, and apps that analytics tools cannot track. Here is how to ...

Bloggers do not need 40 metrics. Here are the 5 that actually grow a blog, how to set them up in 5 minutes, and which tools are best for con...

Privacy-first analytics tracks visitor behavior without collecting personal data. Here is how it works, why it is better, and how to choose ...

From MRR to churn to activation rate, here are the 9 analytics metrics that SaaS companies actually need — what they mean, how to calculate ...

GDPR compliance for web analytics is not optional. Here is what the law requires, which tools are compliant, and how to set up analytics tha...