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Your first website
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Vane counts page loads, sources, campaigns and goals. Start with one website and the public paths you want to measure.
Run Vane
Follow the Run page to get Vane on your computer. Open the private sign-in link printed by rer dev, confirm the owner on Finish setup, then open Your sites. Keep that link private.
Vane starts empty. It never loads sample analytics into your installation.
Add your website
In Add a site, give the site a name and its exact origin. For a website named Fern:
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Site name | Fern |
| Website origin | https://fern.example |
| Allowed paths | /, /pricing, /thanks — one per line |
| Goals | signup=/thanks |
| Campaign labels | launch |
| Referring hostnames | search.example |
List public static paths and labels. Leave names, addresses and customer identifiers out. Choose the site's consent mode, sample rate and retention window.
Select Prepare site. The owner reviews the proposal in Approvals and selects Approve change. Administrators can prepare changes; the owner decides. Members can read reports.
Install the script
Open your site, then Settings. Copy the tag under Install the script into the allowed pages on your website.
When consent is required, load the script after consent and set window.vaneConsent = true before it runs. If your website uses a Content Security Policy, allow your Vane origin in script-src and connect-src.
Visit an allowed page, then /thanks?utm_campaign=launch. A load of /thanks counts as the signup goal. You do not need a second event script.
Read the report
Report places the current seven UTC days beside the preceding seven. Read Visits (page loads) and Goal conversions, followed by the source, campaign, page and goal tables. Change From and Until (exclusive) to inspect a different period.
Visits count accepted page loads. Reloading a page counts again. They do not measure unique people or sessions. See Collection and coverage for the limits behind the numbers.
Bring history with you
For an existing Umami installation, use History → Import a document. Preview import writes nothing; inspect the preview before Apply import. You can Undo import later. See Move from Umami v2 for the supported format.
To move a whole Vane installation, use Data history → Download installation archive. See History and portability before restoring or erasing data.