Website analytics is an opt-in module that records anonymous traffic from your foundry site – pageviews, unique visitors, traffic sources, and country-level geography. Enable it under Settings → Analytics.
The admin surface lives at Admin → Analytics. Date range and grouping work the same as on the Dashboard.
How the figures are calculated
A pageview counts every page event from a visitor’s browser, with no deduplication across rapid reloads.
A unique visitor counts distinct anonymous IDs in the range. The anonymous ID is stored in the _fontdue_state cookie. On a site that requires consent, pageviews from visitors who haven’t accepted aren’t tied to an ID, so they appear in pageview totals but not in the unique visitor count.11The gap between Pageviews and Unique visitors therefore reflects both repeat-visit behavior and the proportion of traffic that hasn’t accepted cookies. The number stays useful for trends and for the consented portion of traffic.
Webfont requests
The Webfonts section reports how often your hosted webfonts are loaded by the sites that embed them. Unlike the visitor figures above, this data is collected at the edge each time a font file is served, so it’s always available – you don’t need to enable tracking, and it isn’t affected by cookie consent.22Because the counts come from font-file requests rather than a browser script, they cover traffic that website analytics can’t see, such as cached pageviews that still fetch a font.
The summary cards show the total Font requests in the range, the number of Unique domains those requests came from, and the Top family by request volume. A Total font requests chart breaks the same total down over time, and a Top font families table ranks each family by requests alongside how many distinct domains loaded it.
Cookies
Fontdue sets up to two cookies on your site:
_fontdue_state– a signed cookie storing the visitor’s anonymous ID plus any UTM and referrer data captured on first visit. One-year lifetime. Set only when analytics tracking is allowed._fontdue_cc– the consent cookie, written by the consent banner when the visitor chooses Accept all or Necessary only. Stores a comma-separated list of consent categories. One-year lifetime.
If your site doesn’t require cookie consent, _fontdue_state is set on first visit and every pageview is linked. If you do require consent, tracking runs cookieless – pageviews are still recorded, but with no anonymous ID – until the visitor accepts, at which point _fontdue_state is set and subsequent views are linked. To enable the consent banner, see Cookie consent.
What’s not tracked
Fontdue’s analytics are deliberately lightweight: no event tracking (clicks, scroll depth, etc.), no session recording, and no identity resolution beyond the anonymous ID. If you need heavier analytics, add a third-party service alongside Fontdue’s – see Gate third-party scripts on consent for how to wire them into the consent banner.