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Eliran Yihye
How we built OnyxMetric
OnyxMetric is cookieless web analytics with session replay and an MCP server. Here is how its ingest path, visitor identity, bot detection and replay pipeline work.
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Is Anyone Arriving From AI Chatbots? How to Measure It
How AI assistant referrals show up in analytics, why the number is always partly hidden, and how to separate real visits from crawlers.
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Amplitude Alternatives: Six Ways to Replace It
Looking beyond Amplitude? How to pick between product analytics tools by pricing model, privacy, depth and team fit, with honest tradeoffs for each.
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Analytics MCP Servers: What to Look For Before You Connect One
Evaluation criteria for analytics MCP servers: authentication, scopes, tool design, write access, and the questions to test in a trial.
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FullStory Alternatives: Replay Tools Compared
Evaluating FullStory alternatives? How session replay tools differ on pricing, privacy, analytics depth and setup, and where OnyxMetric fits.
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Find the Leak: A Practical Guide to Funnels
How to define funnel steps, read the drop-off between them, split by traffic source and device, and decide what to fix first.
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Ask AI About Your Analytics: GA4 and Beyond
What it takes to query Google Analytics from an assistant, what limits you will meet, and how a hosted analytics MCP server changes the setup.
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Google Analytics Pricing: What Free Really Costs
GA4 has no license fee and Analytics 360 is sold by quote. Where the real costs of Google Analytics show up, and how a flat-priced alternative compares.
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Hotjar Alternatives: What to Use Instead
Hotjar is not the only way to see user behavior. Compare replay, heatmap and analytics options by price, privacy and fit, including OnyxMetric.
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Mixpanel Alternatives: Picking the Right Replacement
A practical guide to replacing Mixpanel: what to weigh, which tools fit which team, and how OnyxMetric compares on pricing, privacy and scope.
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Mixpanel Pricing Explained: Events, Plans and Surprises
How Mixpanel charges for tracked events, what the free tier is for, and what to check before your volume grows. Plus how flat per-site pricing differs.
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PostHog Pricing: How Usage-Based Billing Adds Up
PostHog charges per product by usage, with free monthly allowances. How the model works, where bills grow, and how flat per-site pricing compares.
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Who Comes Back? Reading Retention Cohorts Without Guessing
How retention tables work, which days and weeks to watch, what the shapes mean, and the mistakes that make retention numbers lie.
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Search Console Data Inside Your Assistant, Without Extra Servers
How to ask an AI assistant about queries, pages, countries and devices from Google Search Console, and how to combine it with on-site behavior.
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How to Choose a Session Replay Tool: Criteria That Matter
A buyer's checklist for session replay tools: what to compare, which trade-offs are real, and how replay fits with the rest of your analytics.
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Watching Real Sessions: A Plain Guide to Session Replay
What session replay records, what it does not, when it beats a chart, and how to use it without invading anyone's privacy.
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Web Vitals From Real Visitors: What to Measure and What to Fix
Field data versus lab tests, what each Core Web Vital measures, why the 75th percentile matters, and a practical order for fixing slow pages.