Set up Clerion in about a minute

Create an account, paste one script tag, and optionally bring your Google Analytics history. No cookie banner, no event plan, and nothing charged for 14 days.

Before you start

You need an email address you can confirm a link on, and somewhere to paste one line into your site’s head. If you have a Google Analytics 4 export handy, keep it nearby: step 3 reads it into the new dashboard. Every account starts on the 14-day trial at Growth level, with every feature on.

1. Create your account

Sign up with email and a password, or with Google, then confirm the link we email you. Pick a plan and add a card. The exact amount and the date it would be charged are shown before you confirm, and cancelling inside the 14 days charges nothing.

Vesper, a worked example store, is on the account from day one, so there is a full dashboard and a real briefing to read before your own site has data.

2. Paste one line into your site

Copy the tag from your dashboard and paste it once inside the head of your page. The dashboard goes live the moment your first visitor arrives. The version below has placeholders; the copy inside your dashboard carries your real key and site id.

<script
  src="https://api.getclerion.com/sdk/clerion-analytics.js"
  data-api-key="YOUR_API_KEY"
  data-website-id="YOUR_WEBSITE_ID"
></script>

Where the line goes depends on your platform.

Plain HTML

Paste it anywhere inside <head> on every page you want counted. It loads deferred, so it never slows the page.

WordPress

Paste it into your theme's header.php just before </head>, or use any header-scripts plugin. A child theme is the safer home, since a parent theme update can overwrite header.php.

Shopify

Open Online Store, Themes, Edit code, then layout/theme.liquid, and paste it just before </head>. It loads on every storefront page.

Webflow

Go to Project settings, Custom code, paste it into Head code, then publish. Webflow applies it site-wide.

Squarespace

Use Settings, Advanced, Code injection, Header. It applies to every page.

Wix

Use Settings, Custom code, and add it to Head on all pages.

Next.js and React

Put it in your root layout's head, or render it with next/script using the afterInteractive strategy. Client-side route changes are counted as pageviews, so a single-page app behaves like any other site.

Anything else

Framer, Ghost, Astro, Hugo, Laravel, Rails, Django and hand-written HTML all work. Clerion needs nothing more than one line in the head. Avoid loading it through Google Tag Manager: ad blockers block the tag manager itself, which hands back the accuracy you installed Clerion to get.

3. Bring your history

This step is optional. Export your reports from Google Analytics 4 and drop the CSV in during setup. Clerion parses it in your browser, so the file never leaves your machine, and only aggregates and capped top lists are sent: up to two years of daily history and ten years of monthly. One import per site, replaceable and deletable.

Coming from Plausible, Fathom, Matomo, Simple Analytics, Umami or anything else? Ask priority support inside the app and we bring the history across for you.

4. Read the first briefing

Open the Overview. With an import, Clerion writes a briefing straight away. Without one, it works from your first visitor and gets sharp once it has about a week of data, rather than guessing from a day of noise. Every claim in a briefing clicks through to the sessions behind it.

Check it is working

Open your own site

Visit your site in another tab. The live pulse on the dashboard updates every 30 seconds, so your visit shows up almost immediately.

Nothing arriving

Check that the snippet sits inside the head on the page you loaded, and that it is not being injected through a tag manager. Still nothing? Ask Clerion in the app and the AI walks through the likely causes with you. Priority support is one panel away.

Numbers too high

The snippet is probably on a page twice. Keep one per page, remove the duplicate, and counts settle from the next visitor onward.

What is tracked automatically

No event plan and no configuration. Custom conversion events are there when you want them, not a prerequisite.

Traffic	Pageviews, sessions, visitors, entry and exit pages, referrers, campaigns and site search.
Behaviour	Clicks, scroll depth, active time, forms, outbound links and file downloads.
AI assistants	Referrals from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini and Copilot as their own channel.
Speed	Load time, first paint and time to interactive, scored against Core Web Vitals.
Errors	JavaScript exceptions and console errors, grouped by page and severity, with the visitor's last actions.
SEO	Titles, headings, meta tags, canonicals, Open Graph and schema on every page, for the site audit.
Bots	Crawlers detected and excluded from your numbers, and never counted toward billing.

Questions

What do I need before I start?

An email address you can confirm a link on, and somewhere to paste one line into your site's head. If you have a Google Analytics export handy, bring it: Clerion reads your history into the new dashboard. Every account starts on the 14-day trial: pick a plan, add a card, nothing is charged for 14 days, and the exact amount and date are shown first.

When do I get my first AI briefing?

Straight away if you import your history, because Clerion writes a first briefing as soon as the import lands. Without an import, the dashboard works from the first visitor and the briefing gets sharp once Clerion has about a week of data, rather than guessing from a day of noise. The AI is on the trial and the paid plans.

Do I have to configure events or goals to get value?

No. Pageviews, sessions, clicks, scroll depth, forms, outbound links, file downloads, time on page, and Core Web Vitals are all tracked out of the box. Custom conversion events are there when you want them, not a prerequisite.

Can I track more than one site?

Yes. A site switcher sits at the top of the dashboard, and site limits follow your plan: 1 on Free and Solo, 3 on Starter, 10 on Growth, unlimited on Business.

Can someone help me install it?

Yes. Email hello@getclerion.com with your site and platform and we will tell you exactly where the line goes, or check it for you once it's live.

Do I need to change my Content Security Policy?

Only if you run a strict CSP. In that case allow the Clerion script source and its collection endpoint in your script-src and connect-src directives. The exact hosts are shown with your snippet in the dashboard.