Quickstart
You can be tracking your first visitors in about five minutes. All you need is access to a running Snow dashboard and the ability to add a small script to your website.
This guide assumes Snow is already running and you can reach the dashboard. If
you still need to deploy Snow, follow the README that ships with your copy of
Snow first, then come back here.
Create your account
Open your Snow dashboard (for example https://snowanalytics.app) and sign up with
your email and a password. The first time you open Snow, this creates your account.
Add your website
Click Add site and enter your site’s domain (for example example.com). Snow
creates the site and gives it a unique Site ID: a short piece of text like
a1b2c3 that ties incoming visits to this site.
Copy your tracking snippet
On the site’s Settings → Tracking tab, copy the snippet. It looks like this:
<script defer src="https://api.snowanalytics.app/sa.js" data-site="YOUR_SITE_ID"></script>Snow fills in your real collector URL and Site ID for you.
Paste it into your website
Add the snippet to the <head> of every page you want to track. Most website
builders have a “custom code”, “header scripts”, or “embed” box for exactly this.
Paste it there once and it applies site-wide.
Need help for your specific platform? See the Install Guides.
Watch the data roll in
Open your site in a new browser tab, then return to the Snow dashboard. Within a few seconds you’ll see yourself appear in the Live view, and the Overview report starts filling in. 🎉
Verify it’s working
If you don’t see data after a minute:
- Make sure the snippet is in the page’s
<head>and the page actually loaded it (view source and search forsa.js). - Confirm the
data-sitevalue matches your Site ID exactly. - Check that an ad-blocker isn’t blocking the request. If it is, set up the first-party proxy to recover those visitors.
See Troubleshooting for the full checklist.