Simple Analytics integration support

Track your archive traffic with privacy-first analytics.

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.

Paid feature
This integration is available on paid plans.

Integrating SimpleAnalytics with your Buttondown newsletter is straightforward and takes just a few minutes.

Sign up for SimpleAnalytics

This guide assumes that you're already using SimpleAnalytics. If not, you can sign up for SimpleAnalytics and add your website to get started.

Connect SimpleAnalytics to Buttondown

To integrate SimpleAnalytics with your Buttondown newsletter:

Go to your Buttondown settings. Navigate to the Integrations page in your Buttondown dashboard.
Enable SimpleAnalytics. Find the SimpleAnalytics section and toggle it on.

That's it! SimpleAnalytics will automatically start tracking your newsletter's web archive traffic.

What gets tracked

Once enabled, SimpleAnalytics will track:

Page views on your newsletter archives
Visitor sources and referrers
Browser and device information
Geographic data (country-level only)

All tracking is done in a privacy-friendly way without storing any personal information or using cookies.

Viewing your analytics

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:

Total page views and unique visitors
Top pages (your most popular newsletter issues)
Traffic sources
Countries your visitors are from
Devices and browsers used

Privacy considerations

SimpleAnalytics is designed with privacy in mind:

No cookies are used
No personal data is collected
Visitors are not tracked across websites
All data is anonymized
You own all your data

This makes it an excellent choice for newsletter writers who want to understand their audience while respecting their privacy.