How Much Analytics Does an Early-Stage Startup Actually Need?
How much analytics does an early-stage startup need before revenue? Almost none: track arrivals, the one key action, and where people fall off. The minimal setup.
Founder-to-founder takes on what to measure, what to ignore, and how to connect the traffic you already have to the revenue you actually want.
How much analytics does an early-stage startup need before revenue? Almost none: track arrivals, the one key action, and where people fall off. The minimal setup.
The analytics stack for startups almost never needs a warehouse or a CDP. Here is the honest three-part setup I run: traffic, revenue, and Search Console.
Marketing attribution for small business is mostly guessing. Here is how to guess well with first-touch, last-touch, self-reported sources, and real revenue.
Why I gave up on GA4 after years of sampling, a 14-month data cap, and consent-mode gaps eating conversions. The honest reasons, and what I run now.
Per-event and per-session analytics pricing for startups punishes growth: the bigger your traffic, the scarier the bill. Why flat pricing wins for small teams.
Switching analytics tools is a 2-minute script swap. The hard part is the data: your numbers shift, history stays put, and consent rules change. Stay calm.
At 500 visitors a month, most A/B tests are noise. Here is the honest math on sample size, why small-site winners vanish, and what to test instead.
A funnel tells you which step loses people. A click map tells you why they left that page. What each one sees, what it misses, and when to use which.
Most analytics tools tell you who visited. Revenue attribution tells you who paid. Here's why that distinction is the difference between growing and guessing.
Cookie consent banners block 40 to 60% of your visitors from ever being tracked. Here's what that does to your data and what to do about it.
Most early SaaS founders track too many metrics and act on none. Here are the four numbers that actually tell you whether your business is working.
Pageviews, social likes, and newsletter open rates feel like progress. They are not. Here is how to find the numbers that actually move revenue.