Analytics
Baan ships with a built-in analytics view that captures page views and referrers in log storage owned by your deployment: local files on self-hosted installs, or cloud storage in serverless deployments. No external script is loaded, no third-party cookies are set, and no data leaves your infrastructure.
What’s Tracked
Section titled “What’s Tracked”| Metric | Detail |
|---|---|
| Page views | Total / today / this week / this month |
| Top posts | Top 10 articles by view count |
| Top referrers | Top 10 referrer domains |
| Trend chart | Daily page view counts for the last 7 days |
| Recent log | Latest 20 page view entries (path, referrer, user agent, timestamp) |
AI Bot Identification
Section titled “AI Bot Identification”In addition to human page views, Baan classifies traffic from AI crawlers and AI assistant referrals:
- AI bot visits — User-Agent matched against known crawlers (
GPTBot,ClaudeBot,PerplexityBot, etc.). Each visit records which AI read which article and when. - AI-driven referrals — Visits whose
Refererheader matcheschat.openai.com,perplexity.ai,gemini.google.com, etc. are bucketed separately from search engine traffic.
Note: Some AI assistants (notably ChatGPT) send no referrer for clicks out of their answers, so AI-driven traffic is observed, not exhaustive. The number is a floor, not a total.
Privacy
Section titled “Privacy”- No external requests — the tracking pixel/script is part of Baan itself
- No third-party cookies
- IP addresses are not stored long-term (only used during a request to derive the country/region if configured)
- Data lives in your own local or cloud storage
When You Need More
Section titled “When You Need More”The built-in analytics covers the typical “blog dashboard” use case. For deeper insights (funnels, custom events, demographic segmentation), pair Baan with Google Analytics or another integration — the Integrations system can inject any third-party analytics tag without code changes.