Analytics without the banner.
Every site deployed on slew comes with visitor analytics measured where the traffic already flows — the CDN edge. No JavaScript snippet, no cookies, no consent banner, and nothing to install or pay extra for.
How it works
slew's edge (Bunny, Slovenia) already writes a log line for every request. The platform sweeps those logs server-side and classifies real pageviews out of them — filtering assets, bots and noise — into hourly rollups: pageviews, unique visitors, referrers, top pages and countries. Your site ships no analytics code at all; this page you're reading proves it, because slew.sh measures itself the same way.
Unique visitors without storing anyone
Uniques are counted the way privacy-first tools do it: a salted daily hash of visitor attributes that is never stored raw and cannot be joined across days. Only the counts are kept; the salts are discarded with the log retention window. No cookies, no localStorage, no fingerprinting that outlives a day.
Where you see it
The Audience tab in the dashboard, or the terminal:
$ slew stats
requests 12,405 (96.2% from cache)
by hour ▁▁▂▃▅█▆▅▃▂▂▃▄▅▆▅▄▃▂▂▁▁▁▁A weekly digest email summarizes each project's audience every Monday — opt-in, and useful as the skeleton of a monthly client report.
Why this beats a third-party tool
A script-based tool costs you a vendor, a consent banner, and the visitors who block it — typically a third or more of developer-adjacent traffic. Log-based measurement sees every real request, adds zero bytes to your page, and keeps the data under the same EU jurisdiction as the site itself. Netlify sells analytics as a paid add-on; here it's simply part of hosting.
Frequently asked
- Do I need a cookie banner for this?
- Not for slew's analytics: no cookies or client-side identifiers are used, and raw visitor attributes are never stored. (Your site may still need a banner for things you add yourself.)
- Which plans include it?
- All of them, including free, for every site and server app.
- Is JavaScript-blocked traffic counted?
- Yes — measurement happens at the edge, so visitors with ad-blockers or JS disabled are counted like everyone else, while known bots are filtered out.
- Can I export the numbers?
- The stats are available from the CLI and the API the dashboard uses; email me if you need a specific export for client reporting.