Buttondown Documentation
SimpleAnalytics is a privacy-first analytics platform that respects your visitors. It's fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and other privacy regulations, offering 100% accurate data without using cookies or collecting any personal information. It's a great way to understand your newsletter's performance while maintaining your subscribers' privacy.
Integrating SimpleAnalytics with your Buttondown newsletter is straightforward and takes just a few minutes.
This guide assumes that you're already using SimpleAnalytics. If not, you can sign up for SimpleAnalytics and add your website to get started.
To integrate SimpleAnalytics with your Buttondown newsletter:
That's it! SimpleAnalytics will automatically start tracking your newsletter's web archive traffic.
Once enabled, SimpleAnalytics will track:
All tracking is done in a privacy-friendly way without storing any personal information or using cookies.
To view your newsletter's analytics, log into your SimpleAnalytics dashboard. You'll see data for your newsletter domain (either buttondown.com/yourusername
or your custom domain if you've set one up).
SimpleAnalytics provides insights into:
SimpleAnalytics is designed with privacy in mind:
This makes it an excellent choice for newsletter writers who want to understand their audience while respecting their privacy.