Read about privacy, analytics, sustainability, and more.
7 Best Google Analytics Alternatives - Privacy-First, Cookie-Free, and Planet Friendly
The search for a Google Analytics substitute has intensified as businesses prioritize user privacy, GDPR compliance, and simpler interfaces. Here are the 7 best alternatives.
AI bots are inflating your analytics - here's what to do about it
AI crawlers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google and others are skewing your website traffic data. Learn how to identify and separate bot traffic from real visitors.
How to measure your website's carbon footprint
Your website produces CO2 every time someone visits it. Here's how to measure, understand, and reduce your site's environmental impact.
Cookie banners are killing your conversion rate
Cookie consent banners reduce engagement, increase bounce rates, and create a poor first impression. Here's the data, and what you can do about it.
GDPR compliant analytics without consent banners - a practical guide
Yes, you can track website analytics and fully comply with GDPR without asking visitors for consent. Here's exactly how it works and what the law actually says.
The pursuit of green web analytics
Is it possible to create a web analytics service that runs entirely on renewable energy? We explore the challenges and what Cabin does differently.
Query your web analytics with AI chat assistants
Cabin has first-class support for MCP connectors, allowing you to use Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and more to query your analytics data conversationally.
🔒 Password-protected public dashboards
You can now add password protection to your public dashboards in Cabin Analytics.
The Cabin Analytics API
Integrate Cabin's privacy-first analytics directly into your custom reporting tools with the Cabin Analytics API
🗃️ List improvements
Lists in the dashboard have been improved. You can now view full lists in the side-panel. Hurrah!
Privacy-first analytics - How Cabin measures unique visitors without cookies
How does Cabin accurately count unique visitors without using any tracking technologies like cookies, UIDs or fingerprinting? We invented our own technique.
🫰 Improved event click rates
The events panel in the dashboard has been improved with total and unique click rates.
Cabin - The next episode
Cabin analytics, created by Nic Mulvaney at Normally, is now fully independant after the studio's closure. An exciting journey awaits...
🚰 Improved data export
Our new export feature is available directly in the dashboard and reflects the current selected date range.
🪦 Removing X posts (Tweets)
Sadly, we've had to remove the Tweets section from the dashboard. Elon's API restrictions have meant that we can't bring X posts into the dashboard anymore.
🔎 New filters added to all lists
We've added the ability to filter each of your dashboard lists allowing you to quickly find specific items.
🏀 Improved bounce rates
Today we've improved Cabin's bounce rate tracking. Our new method is now more reliable and accurate.
🌍 Updated CO2 calculations
Today we've updated our CO2 calculations to utilise The Green Web Foundation's CO2 library. CO2 calculations of your web pages are now considerably less.
🛰 Events super-charged
🌱 Cabin is 100% Green
🙅♀️ Bypass ad blockers
Today we've introduced custom subdomains to bypass ad-blockers. This means that visitor's requests can be directed to your own subdomain instead of Cabin.
📧 Email reports
We've now added weekly email reports to Cabin. These will land in your inbox every Monday morning around 8am (according to your domain's timezone).
🌿 Improved carbon tracking
We're constantly working on improving the carbon analysis tracking. Carbon tracking works by analysing all the files loaded on your website.
