Your website traffic, in your inbox.
Scissortail keeps a quiet eye on your site and emails you a short, plain-English report: how many people came, what they looked at, and where they found you. No dashboard to learn, no password to lose, nothing to install.
Built and run by McCracken Labs · free with every site we build · no cookies
What lands in your inbox
A report anyone can read.
No charts to decode and no jargon. Just the numbers that tell you whether your site is doing its job.
Every report also comes with a private link to your live numbers, and a one-tap way to save it as a PDF. No account, no login.
How it works
You don't have to do anything.
We set the whole thing up when we build your site. From then on it just shows up.
We switch it on
When McCracken Labs builds your site, we turn Scissortail on for you. There is nothing for you to sign up for or configure.
It counts, quietly
It tallies visits in the background with no cookies and no personal data. Your visitors never see a banner and your pages stay fast.
You get the email
A clean report arrives every week, or every month if you would rather. Want to change how often? Just reply to it.
Built to not know things about people.
- No cookies, so there is no cookie banner to bolt onto your site.
- No IP addresses stored. The address is coarsened and hashed with a daily secret, then thrown away.
- No profile that follows a person from one site to the next.
- Honors Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control automatically.
- Counts how many separate people came without keeping anything that names them.
- Your numbers stay in a database we run for you, not sold off to some ad network.
- Small and fast, so it will not slow your pages down.
- The reports are yours. We never share your traffic with anyone.
What you learn
The things worth knowing, and nothing you have to hide.
How many people came
Page views and separate visitors, with an arrow showing whether you are up or down from the last stretch.
What they read
Your most-viewed pages, ranked, so you can see what is pulling people in and do more of it.
Where they found you
Whether visitors came from Google, Facebook, a link somewhere, or typed you in directly.
Roughly where they are
The general areas your visitors are in, handy for a local shop that wants to know it is reaching its town.
Built by McCracken Labs. Not resold.
Scissortail is our own software. We wrote it, we run it on our own sites, and we hand it to every client we build for. It is not a third-party analytics service we resell or a logo slapped on someone else's product. The people who built your website are the same people standing behind the tool that measures it.
It runs on our Cloudflare account and the code is open, so you are welcome to look under the hood. The same numbers also live in a clean dashboard any time you want them.
Open the live demo →All it takes on a page
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Comes free with every site we build.
Scissortail Reports is part of every McCracken Labs website, at no extra cost. If you already have a site with us, it is ready to turn on. If you don't yet, that is easy to fix.