Cookieless analytics
First-party, anonymous event counting on the server side — no cookies, no identifiers, no per-user journeys.
Two decades in European eCommerce analytics. Founder & CEO of SealMetrics. Writes about GDPR-compliant attribution, cookieless infrastructure and why reconciling three sets of numbers is not a job.
Rafa's first roles were in digital marketing for European DTC brands, running paid acquisition across Google, Meta and affiliates. Every month, the meetings followed the same pattern: the GA4 number, the pixel number, the CRM number — three sets of figures, all different, all defended, none reconciled.
After founding an agency and advising retail groups, the pattern became impossible to ignore. The problem wasn't the analysts. It was the architecture. Every tool optimised for its own reporting. Consent rejection made 40–60% of EU traffic invisible. Sub-processor chains stretched across three continents. Teams spent more time reconciling numbers than acting on them.
SealMetrics was built to replace reconciliation with a single neutral layer — first-party, cookieless, EU-hosted. Compliance-by-architecture, not by a banner layer bolted on afterwards.
First-party, anonymous event counting on the server side — no cookies, no identifiers, no per-user journeys.
Last-click attribution on complete data — why modelled attribution breaks in Europe.
How to design analytics that avoids personal-data collection by architecture rather than by consent layers.
What European DTC and retail teams actually need from an analytics stack.
Why EU-hosted matters and how sub-processor chains compromise compliance.
MCP servers, AI agent traffic measurement and LLM-ready data warehouses.
30-minute walkthrough. Rafa personally runs every sales call.
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