Cloud-only: nothing to install
Varcio reads the access logs of your connected cloud and shows traffic, pages, devices and where people come from. Pick a discovered cloud resource and start measuring it. No change to your pages.
Real User Monitoring
See what real visitors get, without cookies or recordings
Varcio Real User Monitoring shows traffic, pages, devices and where people come from, read from your connected cloud’s own logs with nothing to install. Add one optional snippet for Core Web Vitals, errors, funnels and goals. No cookies. No session replay.
LCP2.1 sGood
INP180 msGood
CLS0.14Needs work
0Cookies set, and no session recordings
2Ways to measure: cloud logs with nothing to install, or a snippet
16Screens, from Live to Third parties
p75Core Web Vitals on Google’s own thresholds
Measurement
Two ways to measure, and you can use both
Start with logs you already have, then add the snippet when you want the browser’s view.
Cloud-only
- Reads access logs
- Nothing to install
- Traffic, pages, devices
Snippet
- One script tag
- Core Web Vitals
- Errors, funnels, goals
Snippet: the browser’s view
Add one script tag to your pages for Core Web Vitals, JavaScript errors, frustration signals, funnels and goals. Varcio checks it is reporting and tells you plainly why if it is not.
The snippet is a single script tag
<script
async
src="https://app.varcio.com/rum/v1.js"
data-key="YOUR_SITE_KEY"
data-endpoint="https://app.varcio.com/api/v1/public/rum/v1/c"
></script>Your site key is created when you add a site under Sites and install. You can rotate it at any time.
What you see
Sixteen screens, from live traffic to third-party cost
Each answers one question about the people using your site.
- Live
- Pages
- Web Vitals
- Audience
- Acquisition
- Journeys
- Funnels
- Goals
- Errors
- Frustration
- Releases
- Third parties
Live
Who is on your site right now: active visitors, the last hour minute by minute and sessions in progress.
Pages
Every page with its views, entries, bounce, Core Web Vitals, errors and frustration, plus a detail view for each.
Web Vitals
Core Web Vitals on Google’s thresholds: p75 and good or poor shares, the trend with release markers, where it is slow and what slow pages cost in conversions.
Audience
Devices, browsers, countries, languages, when people visit, session length and how much traffic is automated.
Acquisition
Sources, campaigns and landing pages, which sources convert, and campaigns that send people to slow pages.
Journeys
Page-to-page flow, entry and exit pages, dead ends, loops and common paths.
Funnels
Pick the steps as pages, events or goals and see how many sessions reach each, with the interval around every figure and where the biggest drop is.
Goals and events
Pages people reach and custom events your site sends, with completions, converting sessions and conversion.
Error groups
JavaScript errors grouped by cause: how often, how many sessions, which release brought them in and whether a resolved error came back.
Frustration
Rage clicks, dead clicks and error clicks by element and page, and whether stuck sessions convert less. No replay.
Releases
Each release’s speed and errors against the one before it, regressions flagged, and any two releases compared.
Third parties
What outside scripts and files cost: request time by host, page loads touched and the pages that pay the most.
Alert rules
Rules on real-user figures that speak once when a line is crossed and once when it is back, with a recommended starter set.
Monthly report
A printable monthly report of traffic, Core Web Vitals, errors, releases, third parties and goals, and every table as CSV.
Real users beside checks
Your uptime checks next to what real visitors got, where the two disagree, and whether the snippet is still reporting.
Accuracy
Every figure carries the uncertainty it actually supports
Real-user numbers are samples. Varcio shows what they can and cannot say.
Exact vitals buckets
Timings are counted into fixed histograms whose bucket edges sit exactly on Google’s Web Vitals thresholds, so good, needs improvement and poor are exact counts that add across any date range.
Intervals, not bare percentages
A rate from a sample is shown with a Wilson interval. Unique visitors use a mergeable sketch: small counts are near-exact and large ones carry a stated relative error.
Goals are exact
Goals and custom events come from counters over all traffic, never sampled, so a goal completion count is exact.
Funnels say when they cannot
Funnels come from sampled sessions, weighted by the chance each was kept. A step out of order does not count and a step done twice does not count twice. A rate over too few entrants shows no headline number at all.
Privacy
Privacy is enforced on the server, not left to the snippet
The snippet is a convenience and never a control, so scrubbing happens after it, on whatever it sent.
- Snippet sends page views and eventsA convenience, never a control
- Server scrubs identifiersWhatever the snippet sent
- Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control respectedTurned away at the collector
- No cookies, no session recordingsNothing to consent to
Paths lose identifiers, referrers lose paths, errors lose secrets and devices lose user-agent strings. Countries are not derived from IP lookups. A request that is not from a recognised browser is counted as a bot, not a person.
Browsers that send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control are respected, which means there is no server-side trace to count; the interface can only name that case. You also set what is counted and kept per site: privacy, consent, storage and the monthly page-view allowance.
What it does not do
- Set cookies
- Record sessions or replay what a visitor did
- Derive location from IP addresses
- Count visitors who send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control
Reliability
An answer, not a spinner, when the snippet is not reporting
One status per site, shared by every screen, so no page guesses.
- LiveA page view in the last 15 minutesReporting
- StaleNothing for more than a dayCheck pages
- Turned awayWrong hostname, privacy signal or quotaAct now
- Cloud-onlyFigures come from the connected cloudNo snippet
| State | What it means |
|---|---|
| Live | A page view arrived in the last 15 minutes |
| Recent | A page view arrived in the last 24 hours |
| Stale | Counted before, but not for more than a day, so something changed on the pages |
| Turned away | Beacons arrived and the collector refused them: wrong hostname, a privacy signal or a quota |
| Cloud-only | Nothing counted by snippet; figures come from the connected cloud, which needs no snippet |
| Paused | The site is switched off |
| Never | Nothing has arrived yet |
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Plans
Real User Monitoring by plan
Available from the Pro plan.
| Pro | Business | Enterprise | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sites | 1 | 5 | 50 |
| Page views per month | 100,000 | 1,000,000 | 25,000,000 |
| Depth | Basic | Standard | Full |
| Retention | 30 days | 90 days | 400 days |
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FAQ
Questions, answered
Does Varcio Real User Monitoring use cookies?
No. It sets no cookies and records no sessions. It counts page views and events, scrubs identifiers on the server, and respects Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control.
Can I use it without installing anything?
Yes. In cloud-only mode Varcio reads the access logs of a connected cloud resource and shows traffic, pages, devices and sources with nothing added to your pages. Add the snippet later for Core Web Vitals, errors, funnels and goals.
How accurate are the funnel and conversion numbers?
Goals and custom events are exact counts. Funnels come from sampled sessions and every figure is weighted and shown with its interval. If a funnel has too few entrants, Varcio shows no headline rate rather than a misleading one.
How do I know the snippet is working?
Each site has a single status: live, recent, stale, turned away, cloud-only, paused or never. If the snippet is not reporting, the install check tells you why, for example a wrong hostname or a quota.
Which plans include Real User Monitoring?
Pro, Business and Enterprise: 1 site and 100,000 page views a month on Pro, 5 sites and 1,000,000 on Business, and 50 sites and 25,000,000 on Enterprise.
Measure what your visitors actually experience
Add a site, choose cloud-only or the snippet, and see real-user data in minutes. Free trial, no credit card required.