Show HN: Privacy focussed analytics made in Scotland Benmetrics, an independently built and owned analytics product made in Scotland, launched with a privacy-focused pitch of counting website visitors without cookies, personal data collection or consent banners. The service reports traffic from AI assistants including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity separately from other sources, and in its example café data ChatGPT ranked fourth among referrers with 1,233 visitors behind Google (4,934), Direct (3,289) and Instagram (2,056). Benmetrics says it uses a temporary anonymous identifier and briefly uses then discards IP addresses, storing only pages visited, referrer, country and region, device type and visit duration, with analytics data hosted in the UK and a tracking script under 1 KB added in one line of code. Count your visitors. Don’t track them. See how many people visit your website, where they come from and which pages they view. No cookies, no personal data collected, no consent banners required. Made in Scotland 1,345 visitors 3,161 page views 2 OctFriday 2 October, the busiest day Page views Visitors An example month for a café’s website. - Visitors - 13,704 - Page views - 35,907 - Average visit - 2 min 14 s - Left after one page - 41% The answers, in plain English. Website analytics shouldn’t need a training course. Just the numbers that matter, presented in a way that makes sense. Where they found you 1. Google 4,934 visitors 2. Direct 3,289 visitors 3. Instagram 2,056 visitors 4. ChatGPT 1,233 visitors 5. Facebook 1,096 visitors 6. LinkedIn 685 visitors 7. Bing 411 visitors See traffic from AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, separately from other sources. What pages they visited 1. / 7,400 visitors 2. /menu 4,248 visitors 3. /book-a-table 3,015 visitors 4. /opening-hours 2,330 visitors 5. /find-us 1,507 visitors 6. /gift-vouchers 548 visitors You’ll also see where visitors are in the world, what devices they use and how long they stay. It counts like the clicker at a shop door. It knows how many people came in. It never knows who they were. 1. A visitor opens a pageWhen someone visits your website, Benmetrics records which page they viewed and where they came from. No cookies, and nothing stored on their device. 2. We count them, then forget themWe give each visitor a temporary, anonymous identifier so we can count them without counting them twice. Their IP address is used briefly, then discarded. Nothing personally identifiable is stored. 3. Stats persist. Tracking doesn’tYou keep your website’s analytics over time, without using identifiers designed to follow individuals from day to day. What we keep - The pages they visited - Where they came from - Their country and region - The type of device they used - How long they stayed What we never keep - IP addresses - Cookies or data stored on their device - Names, email addresses or login details - Their town, city or exact location - Anything that tracks them across websites or days One line to add. Paste one line of code into your website. It’s less than 1 KB, won’t slow your pages down and works with almost any website.