Author and category reports

What it is

An Authors and categories card on your dashboard: visitors, views and average engaged time for each writer, section and tag, side by side, for any date range.

Why it matters

A blog or news site is planned by writer and topic, not by URL. Seeing that one author or one category brings most readers tells you what to write next.

How it works

1. Add the optional labels.js add-on next to your quietstats tag.
2. On each page load it reads the page’s own labels: <meta name="author">, article:section and up to 3 article:tag, or data-qs-author, data-qs-category and data-qs-tags on any element.
3. quietstats keeps one row per page with those labels, and only writes when they are new or change.
4. The card groups your existing pageviews by those labels: visitors (one person on one day), views and average engaged time.

Set it up

<script data-host="https://quietstats.co.uk" data-site="YOUR_SITE_ID" data-dnt="true" src="https://quietstats.co.uk/js/labels.js" async defer></script>

Replace YOUR_SITE_ID with the ID on your site’s settings page. Install guides →

Privacy: what is and isn’t collected

Collected

• Labels from your own pages: author, category and tags
• Nothing about visitors: the add-on reads the page, not the person

Never collected

• Cookies, localStorage or anything else stored on the visitor’s device
• IP addresses or user agents (used in memory, then discarded)
• Anything that links a visitor across days (the visitor ID resets daily)

How quietstats works, and the legal caveats →

Rows and limits

• Optional add-on of about 1 KB; the core script stays 845 B
• Up to 3 tags per page; labels that look like an email address or phone number are dropped
• Avg. time needs the events.js engagement option
• Rows: 1 row per labelled page, written only when its labels change; 1 read per dashboard view

“Rows” are database rows written, which is what our hosting is billed on. Reads are not rows written. Methodology →