Benefits
These are the benefits we see in the design of Smart Local Google Analytics. What you gain depends on how your site works, so treat this list as a starting point: adapt the plugin to your needs and you may find benefits of your own.
For site owners
- Tracking waits for consent
- No Google scripts load and no Google cookies are set until the visitor accepts
- After a decline, no tracking scripts are injected on later page loads
- Control over where tracking runs
- Page rules keep analytics off the pages you choose
- Your own team's visits can stay out of the statistics
- No external consent service: everything runs on your own server
For visitors
- A clear choice: accept or decline in one dialog, with an optional link to your privacy policy
- Fewer connections to third parties: with local script hosting, the script comes from your domain
- An accessible dialog: keyboard navigation, screen reader support and reduced motion
- A dialog that follows their preference: automatic dark mode detection
For site builders and developers
- No template editing: managed and legacy modes both work without template changes
- Quick to set up: three steps in the Quick Start
- Fits your design: five themes, custom colors, four positions and four animations
- Modern Joomla architecture: built for Joomla 4, 5 and 6 with no deprecated APIs
- Translatable: en-GB and de-DE included, and any language can be added with standard
.inifiles - Safe to demonstrate: demo mode shows the banner without real tracking
- Open licence: GNU General Public License v2 or later