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Detail	Counter	Lettertrace
Overview	This open-source analytics solution simplifies the often complex world of web traffic analysis, providing essential metrics like unique daily visitors and referrer information in an easy-to-digest format. You can get started quickly and only pay for the service when you're ready, offering flexibility alongside powerful, privacy-respecting data.	This tool allows users to track specific topics, automatically generate a variety of prompts to simulate real user queries, and observe trends over time. Its self-hostable nature means you retain full control over your data and API keys, providing a transparent and customizable approach to AI monitoring.
Listed features	Daily Unique Visitor Counts: See how many distinct individuals visit your site each day. Referrer Information: Discover which other websites are sending traffic to your pages. Geographical Locations: Understand the general origin countries or regions of your visitors. Privacy-Friendly by Design: Operates without cookies, IP fingerprinting, or extensive logging. Open Source Transparency: The entire codebase is publicly available for review and collaboration under the AGPL-v3 license.	Monitor Brand Mentions: Measures how often your company is mentioned by AI models like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini in response to specific topics. Automated Prompt Generation: Converts your core topics into dozens of natural-sounding prompt variations, simulating real user queries for comprehensive tracking. Performance Trend Analysis: Tracks brand visibility, prominence, and sentiment week over week, providing historical data to observe trends. Competitor Benchmarking: Compares your brand's share of voice, recommendations, and mentions against specified rival brands within AI answers. Bring Your Own Key & Multi-Model Support: Uses your existing API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google, while supporting concurrent monitoring across various AI models.
Best suited to	Website owners and managers who prioritize user privacy and data security above all else. Developers seeking a transparent, open-source analytics solution they can inspect and contribute to. Small businesses, personal blog owners, or projects that need simple, actionable traffic insights without the complexity or data-heavy footprint of larger tools.	Marketing and Brand Teams: For understanding and managing brand perception within AI assistant answers. SEO and AEO/GEO Professionals: To track visibility, share of voice, and sentiment metrics relevant to AI search optimization. Developers and Tech-Savvy Users: Who prefer open-source tools, self-hosting, and full control over their data and infrastructure.
Limitations and fit	Not listed	Requires Technical Setup: Users need to install the CLI and configure Supabase and API keys, which may require some technical comfort.
Pricing model	Free	Free
Listed price	Not listed	Not listed
Platforms	Browser	MacOS, Browser, Windows