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Page Actions: Cookie-Free Analytics That Reads Like a Timeline

Most analytics tools answer "how many?" and stop. How many visits, how many sessions, how many bounces. The number you actually wanted — what did this person do, in what order, before they converted or left? — is buried under a consent banner, a sampling delay, and a dashboard built for a marketing team at a 500-person company.

For a developer or a small business owner, that's the wrong tool for the question.

Page Actions answers the question directly: it records what users do as a timeline.

What Page Actions does

Page Actions is a privacy-first web analytics tool that records page views and user interactions as a linear event history. You see the actual sequence of actions a visitor took — which elements they engaged with and what led to a conversion — track custom actions you define, measure those conversions, and surface the top behavior patterns across visitors.

It does all of this without cookies and without a consent banner, with data stored in EU infrastructure. Real-time, not overnight.

What's broken about the alternative

The dominant analytics tools were built for scale and aggregation, and they carry the baggage that comes with it. To use them you drop in cookies, which means you owe visitors a consent banner, which means a chunk of your traffic clicks "reject" and vanishes from your data before you've learned anything. What survives is aggregated into counts and averages, often sampled, sometimes delayed a day.

Counts and averages hide the thing that matters most for a small site: the path. "47 conversions this week" doesn't tell you that visitors keep clicking the pricing toggle, hesitating, and leaving — that pattern lives in the sequence of actions, and the standard dashboard flattens it away.

And for a solo developer or a small business, the tool itself is overkill. Configuring goals, audiences, and event taxonomies in a Google-Analytics-grade platform is a project. Most people set it up once, never tune it, and read three numbers off the top.

Page Actions narrows the scope on purpose. No cookies means no consent banner and no traffic lost to it. The event history keeps the sequence intact instead of averaging it away. And the surface is small enough that a developer can install it and read it the same afternoon.

How it works

Linear event history — Every page view comes with the history of actions the visitor took, so you can see what they engaged with and what events led to a conversion — the path, not just the total.

Behavior patterns — Surfaces the top patterns across recorded actions, so common scenarios and drop-off points show up without manual digging.

Precise time-on-page — Page-level time tracking that pauses when a user leaves the browser tab and resumes when they return, so the number reflects real attention.

Conversion tracking — Define the actions that represent your business goals and measure how well a page performs against them.

Cookie-free and GDPR-native — No cookies, no consent banner, no tracking users across the web. Data lives in EU-based infrastructure by default.

Real-time — Data appears immediately rather than after overnight processing.

Simple setup — Create a Site ID, drop in the page-actions-js library via npm or an HTML script tag, and open the dashboard. Works with vanilla HTML, Vue, and Angular.

Who this is for

Developers and small business owners who want actionable engagement data without the weight — and the consent banner — of a full analytics suite. People running small sites, hobby projects, and growing sites who care more about what visitors did than about a wall of aggregate metrics.

Pricing is freemium: Free at €0/month (1 site, 4k monthly views, 2 months retention), Starter at €6/month (5 sites, 20k views, 2 years), and Pro at €24/month (10 sites, 100k views, 3 years).