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WEB ANALYTICS

Analytics tools count the visit. SEORCE explains the organic and AI ones.

It maps to one SEORCE engine: Web Analytics. This category runs from GA4 and Adobe to privacy-first tools like Matomo, Plausible and Fathom. SEORCE does not replace them. It is the organic and AI-traffic lens that sits beside your analytics of record and attributes the AI referrals they still bucket poorly, from ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, then ties each visit to the ranking, content and exact AI citation behind it.

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Mapped to Web Analytics

Keep your analytics of record. Add the picture it cannot give you.

SEORCE is not a replacement for GA4, Adobe or Matomo. Those are your analytics of record, and they should stay. What general analytics still struggles with is AI traffic: GA4's AI Assistant channel, added in May 2026, misses Perplexity, counts AI Overviews as Organic Search, and loses the large share of AI visits that arrive without a referrer to Direct. Independent benchmarks put the undercount at roughly a third.

SEORCE's Web Analytics reads your traffic in and attributes the organic and AI-referred visits cleanly, then does something no general analytics tool can: because it shares one source of truth with AI Beacon, it connects a visit to the exact page or thread the AI cited. The click and the citation finally meet, beside the rankings and content that produced them.

The field

Every analytics tool, with the AI lens it is missing.

These tools all count traffic or product behaviour. Every one has a full side-by-side comparison, mapped to Web Analytics.

Google Analytics 4The free analytics defaultCompare → Adobe AnalyticsEnterprise analytics in Experience CloudCompare → MatomoOpen-source, privacy-first GA alternativeCompare → Piwik PROCompliance-focused enterprise analyticsCompare → PlausibleLightweight, cookieless analyticsCompare → Fathom AnalyticsPrivacy-first, cookieless analyticsCompare → Cloudflare Web AnalyticsFree, cookie-free basicsCompare → StatcounterSimple visitor tracking and market dataCompare → Simple AnalyticsMinimal, privacy-first analyticsCompare → UmamiOpen-source, self-hosted analyticsCompare → MixpanelProduct and event analyticsCompare → AmplitudeProduct analytics at scaleCompare → HeapAutocapture product analyticsCompare → PostHogOpen-source product analytics suiteCompare → PendoProduct analytics and in-app guidesCompare → HotjarHeatmaps and session recordingCompare → Microsoft ClarityFree heatmaps and recordingsCompare → FullStoryDigital experience analyticsCompare → ContentsquareExperience analytics platformCompare → SmartlookSession recording and analyticsCompare →
The data

The data behind every comparison.

7.5T
Pages discovered in the backlink index
724.0M
Root domains in the backlink index
87M+
Unique keywords, growing every day
7
AI engines, plus Google AI Overview, AI Mode & Search

Figures as reported by SEORCE, September 2026.

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