Where the data comes from
Every request to your app passes through Vertra’s edge network before it reaches your container, on both the*.vertraweb.app subdomain and your custom domains. The edge measures each request as it goes by: the route, the status, the country, the device and how long each step took. Web Analytics reads those measurements for you.
This has three consequences:
- No script, no cookie, no banner. Your pages stay exactly as they are.
- Bots and scanners are included. They hit your app like anyone else, so the numbers match what your container really handled. You can filter them out.
- Only web traffic counts. An app without web publishing turned on shows an empty state until the first request arrives. Databases and background workers have no Analytics tab.
Two levels: summary and details
Summary
One sentence and four numbers to answer “is my site healthy?”. For everyone.
Details
Traffic, errors, performance and requests, for when you want to investigate.
Controls shared by every sub-tab
- Period bar: 5 minutes, 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 6 hours, 24 hours, 7 days, 30 days or a custom range from the calendar. How far back you can go depends on the plan; see History and plans.
- Compare: draws the previous period as a dashed line and shows the change in each number. See Compare periods.
- Filters: click a country, route, status or any other value and every panel narrows to it. See Traffic and filters.
What to know before trusting a number
- With high traffic the figures are estimates, and the Requests table is a sample. See Sampling and delay.
- Data refreshes about every 5 minutes and can take a few minutes to appear, so the last minutes of the chart can still grow.
- Vertra does not store anything about your visitors, only the totals of your site. See Privacy.
FAQ
Do I need to add a snippet or an SDK to my app?
Do I need to add a snippet or an SDK to my app?
No. The measurements are taken before the request reaches your app, so Web Analytics works for any language and for sites with no code of their own.
Which hostnames are included?
Which hostnames are included?
The app’s
*.vertraweb.app subdomain and every active custom domain attached to it. Other apps’ hostnames are never mixed in.Does it count visits to my databases?
Does it count visits to my databases?
No. Only HTTP requests to apps published to the web are measured.