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Sleek Analytics

Real-time visitor tracking with a single line of code. No cookies, no consent banners, no complexity. Just a clean live view of who is on your site right now.

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Sleek Analytics is built for indie makers, solo founders, and small site owners who want to know what is happening on their site without wading through the labyrinth of Google Analytics 4. At $5/month with GDPR/CCPA compliance baked in and zero cookie banners, it removes real friction from the analytics workflow. If you need deep funnel analysis or event tracking, this is not the tool for you yet. But if you want a clean, live pulse on your traffic with minimal setup, Sleek delivers exactly that.

Pricing

Simple, single-tier pricing. No usage traps.

Standard

$5/month

Locked in forever. No price increases.

  • check_circleLive visitor tracking
  • check_circleNo cookies required
  • check_circleOne-line setup
  • check_circleVisitor profiles
  • check_circleMeaningful insights for low traffic

How it compares

  • Google Analytics: Free, but complex, cookie-dependent, and requires consent banners in the EU.
  • Plausible: $9/month for 10k pageviews. Privacy-focused, more mature feature set.
  • Fathom: $15/month for 100k pageviews. Enterprise-grade privacy analytics.
  • Sleek: $5/month flat. Simpler scope, but the cheapest privacy-first option with real-time focus.

Key Features

What you actually get when you drop that script tag in.

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Real-Time Visitor Tracking

See exactly who is on your site at any given moment. Not aggregated data from yesterday. Live, right now.

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No Cookies, No Banners

Sleek operates without cookies entirely. That means no annoying consent popups and no compliance headaches for GDPR or CCPA.

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One-Line Integration

A single script tag in your HTML. No npm packages, no build steps, no configuration files. Copy, paste, done.

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Visitor Profiles

Individual visitor profiles give you context on returning users without relying on cookies or personally identifiable information.

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Live Web Vitals

Track Core Web Vitals in real time alongside your traffic data. Performance monitoring and analytics in one dashboard.

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GDPR & CCPA Compliant

Built from the ground up for privacy compliance. No personal data collection means no legal gray areas for your site.

Who Should Use This

Sleek is not trying to replace enterprise analytics. It is targeting a specific audience, and it knows it.

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Indie Makers & Solo Founders

You launched a side project, a landing page, or a SaaS MVP. You want to know if anyone is actually visiting. GA4 feels like overkill. Sleek gives you the answer in seconds.

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Small Business Owners

Running a local business site or portfolio? You do not need conversion funnels. You need to know how many people visited today and where they came from. Sleek handles that cleanly.

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Privacy-Conscious Developers

If you are building in the EU or simply refuse to add cookie banners on principle, Sleek lets you track traffic without compromising on privacy compliance.

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Marketers Running Launch Campaigns

Launching on Product Hunt or Hacker News? The real-time dashboard lets you watch traffic spike live as your post gains traction. That immediate feedback loop is genuinely useful.

Limitations

Where Sleek falls short. These are real gaps, not nitpicks.

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No Event Tracking

You cannot track button clicks, form submissions, or custom events. If you need to measure conversions or user actions beyond pageviews, Sleek cannot do it yet. This is a significant gap for anyone doing product analytics.

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No Data Export

There is currently no way to export your analytics data as CSV, JSON, or through an API. Your data lives inside Sleek and stays there. For anyone who needs to pull numbers into spreadsheets or reporting tools, this is a blocker.

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Early-Stage Feature Set

Sleek is still building out its feature set. Not all planned analytics capabilities are available at launch. You are betting on the roadmap, which is fine for a $5/month tool but worth knowing upfront.

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Fingerprinting Compliance Questions

Without cookies, Sleek likely relies on some form of browser fingerprinting for visitor profiles. The privacy compliance landscape around fingerprinting is evolving, and future regulations could affect how this works. Worth monitoring.

Ready to try Sleek Analytics?

One script tag. Real-time data. $5/month forever.

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