bearing

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bearing: privacy-first web analytics that show you where you’re heading

Stop pasting Google Analytics screenshots into ChatGPT to ask what they mean. Bearing reads your own numbers and tells you what’s working, what’s broken, and the one move to make next.

No cookies · GDPR-friendly · ~2 KB script · Privacy

The Heading6h ago

Mobile is the storefront now. Design for the thumb.

58% of visitors arrive on mobile, yet /order converts 2.1× better on desktop. Friction, not demand. Instagram drives your highest value at $14.40 / visit on just 9% of sessions.

Top 3 moves

  • 01

    Rebuild /order checkout for one-thumb completion

    high impact · med effort

  • 02

    Double Instagram posting cadence

    high impact · low effort

  • 03

    Add location schema for "coffee near me"

    med impact · med effort

Illustrative. Your panel reads your own numbers.

What you get

Everything Google Analytics tracks, without the cookies, the complexity, or the shrug.

Cookieless

Every pageview, click, call, and conversion

One ~2 KB script, no tagging, no cookie banner.

Conversions

Goals valued in dollars, not vanity

Calls, texts, forms, and clicks become conversions. Value one; Bearing prices the rest.

Funnels

Where people drop off, found for you

The path to your goal and the step that leaks most, dead-end CTAs included.

Sources

Ranked by the value they drive

Which channels actually drive revenue, not just clicks.

Search

The demand you're leaking

The queries you rank for but don't capture, with the title to fix it.

Live

What's happening right now

Who's on the site this minute, plus per-page time and scroll depth.

01

Drop in one script

A ~2 KB tag in your <head>: Wix, Squarespace, Webflow, WordPress, Shopify, Framer, Next.js, plain HTML. No build step, no SDK, no banner.

02

It captures everything

Pageviews, clicks, calls, forms, scroll, all automatic. PII is scrubbed in the browser first.

03

Read your Heading

Open the dashboard; the Heading names the highest-leverage fix, with the revenue at stake.

The difference · the AI Heading

Most analytics count. Bearing’s AI tells you what to do, and why.

An AI growth analyst for your site. It reads your numbers, researches your market, and reviews your real pages, then writes a consultant’s brief: a one-line verdict, where you stand across acquisition, conversion, web performance, and SEO, and the prioritised moves to make first. Every figure traces to a real measurement.

Start here

Get discovered: capture “cold brew, east austin”

73% of your search demand is people already searching your name. The growth is the rest. “cold brew, east austin” shows you 90×/mo at position 7 but earns 1 click. The page that ranks is titled “Home”, which doesn’t target the query. Put that phrase in your title tag and H1 and get into the Maps 3-pack. Even at a 5% conversion rate, that’s a handful of new customers a month on the table.

Knows what your site is for

The whole read adapts to your goal. No SEO lecture for a site that just wants readers.

Reads how people behave

Time on page and scroll depth, not just bounce, so it spots the half-finished booking and the near-subscriber.

Researches & reviews pages

It searches your market and looks at your real site on mobile, catching what a number can’t show.

Shows its work, numbers stay real

Every figure traces to something Bearing counted, and the brief lists the searches and pages it used.

How it compares

BearingGoogle AnalyticsOther privacy tools
Cookieless · no banner·
Tells you what to fix··
Funnels & dead-ends auto-found··
Conversions valued in dollars··
Search demand → page fixes··
Setup in one snippet·

Coming from Plausible or Fathom? See the detailed comparison →

Switching from Plausible or Google Analytics? Import your history so you don’t start from zero →

Privacy-first, by construction

No cookies. No banner. No IPs stored. Nothing that identifies a person.

No cookie banner.Because there are no cookies, there’s nothing to consent to. GDPR-, ePrivacy-, PECR- and CCPA-friendly out of the box.

No IP storage.Visitors are counted with an anonymous hash that resets daily, so it can’t follow anyone across days or sites.

PII scrubbed at the source. Emails and phone numbers are redacted in the browser before anything ever leaves it.

Lightweight.~2 KB gzipped, loaded async, so it won’t slow your site or muddy your Core Web Vitals.

Questions

How is the AI Heading different from generic 'AI insights'?+

It's grounded, not a chatbot riffing on a dashboard. The AI is handed your measured analytics as fact and isn't allowed to invent a statistic; every figure traces to something Bearing actually counted. Instead of generic advice, it researches your specific business and reviews your real pages, then shows you the exact searches and pages it used so you can check the work.

What does the AI see, and where does my data go?+

To write your brief, it gets your aggregate analytics (already stripped of personal data), the public content and screenshots of your own pages, and your Search Console queries, with nothing extra about individual visitors. It runs on the Anthropic API as our processor and isn't used to train any model. Full details are in our privacy policy.

Can I move off Google Analytics easily?+

Yes. Swap the GA snippet for Bearing's one tag. There's nothing else to configure; goals, funnels, and the Heading appear automatically as data comes in.

Pricing

Start free. Upgrade when the Heading earns it.

Paid plans are coming soon. Start free today.

Free

See what's happening

$0

  • 10,000 events / month
  • 1 site
  • 12 months of data history
  • Cookieless analytics — no cookie banner
  • Top pages, sources, countries & cities
  • Goals, conversions & funnels
  • Realtime view
  • Automatic headline insights
Choose Free

Starter

Understand & act

$12/mo

  • 100,000 events / month
  • 5 sites
  • 3 years of data history
  • Everything in Free, plus:
  • The AI Heading — a consultant's brief, researched & written for your site, refreshed weekly
  • AI goal-value & primary-conversion suggestions
  • Value-weighted goals & sources by value
  • Engagement, CTA, call & form tracking
  • Google Search Console keywords
  • Public dashboards

Growth

Scale up

$29/mo

  • 1,000,000 events / month
  • 25 sites
  • 5 years of data history
  • Everything in Starter, plus:
  • AI Heading refreshed every ~2 days
  • Up to 25 sites, 1M events/month
  • 5-year data history

Privacy-first on every plan: cookieless, no IPs stored, no consent banner.

See where you’re heading.

Drop in one script and let the Heading tell you the next move. Free to start, no cookie banner required.