> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.mythos.new/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Project analytics

> Understand visits, page views, traffic sources, devices, and countries for a published Mythos project.

Project Analytics helps you understand how people use a site after it is published. Open the project workspace and select **More → Analytics**.

Analytics begins collecting new visits when the project is live and **Visitor analytics** is enabled. It is enabled by default. Preview visits are not counted, and an unpublished project does not collect new traffic.

<Note>
  Analytics uses anonymous browser sessions for traffic totals. It does not identify visitors or create a persistent profile that follows someone across separate visits.
</Note>

## View your traffic

<Steps>
  <Step title="Publish the project">
    Analytics needs a live site. If the project is not published, the Analytics page shows a **Publish** action instead of traffic.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Open Analytics">
    Select **More → Analytics**. Traffic from the project's `*.r21.dev` address and connected custom domains appears in the same dashboard.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Choose a period">
    Use the period picker to view today, yesterday, the last 24 hours, 7, 14, 30, or 90 days, or the current month.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Select a metric">
    Choose a summary metric to update the trend chart, then review the source, page, device, and country breakdowns below it.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## Metrics

| Metric           | What it tells you                                                    |
| ---------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Visitors         | Anonymous visits recorded during the selected period.                |
| Page views       | The total number of tracked pages opened.                            |
| Views per visit  | The average number of pages opened during one visit.                 |
| Visit duration   | The average time between the first and last tracked page in a visit. |
| Bounce rate      | The share of visits that opened only one page.                       |
| Current visitors | Visits with activity during the last five minutes.                   |

A one-page visit has a recorded duration of zero because there is no second page view to measure against.

## Breakdowns

* **Source** shows where a visit began. Visits with no usable external referrer appear as **Direct**.
* **Page** shows which paths visitors opened.
* **Device** groups visits into Desktop, Mobile, or Tablet.
* **Country** shows a coarse country result when one is available, otherwise **Unknown**.

These totals describe recorded browser traffic, not every request to the site. Tracking protection, disabled JavaScript, network failures, and automated-traffic filtering can make Analytics totals lower than server request counts.

## Turn Visitor analytics off or on

<Steps>
  <Step title="Open Publishing settings">
    Go to **More → Project settings → Publishing**.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Change Visitor analytics">
    Turn **Visitor analytics** off to stop collecting new visits, or turn it on to resume collection for a live project. You do not need to rebuild or republish.
  </Step>
</Steps>

When analytics is disabled, **More → Analytics** shows an **Enable Analytics** action. Turning it back on collects new traffic from that point forward; it does not recreate visits from the disabled period.

Existing history remains available until it reaches the 90-day retention period or the project is deleted. Unpublishing also stops new collection.

<Warning>
  As the site owner, you are responsible for any visitor notice or consent required in your jurisdiction. See the [Privacy Policy](https://mythos.new/privacy) and [Cookie Policy](https://mythos.new/cookies) for processing and storage details.
</Warning>

## Related

* [Publish your site](/publishing/publish) — make the project live so traffic can be recorded.
* [Custom domains](/publishing/custom-domains) — include traffic from an address you own.
* [SEO & AI search](/publishing/seo) — improve how crawlers understand the public site.