Nodium and Google Analytics
Google Analytics sets cookies on your visitors' devices2. Nodium is one page you read in a minute, sets no cookies, and reads your own forms for you. Here's where they differ.
Facts checked on October 23, 2026, each against its source. Every number links to where it came from.
Side by side
| What | Nodium | Google Analytics | Better at this |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cookies | No cookies and nothing stored on the device. A visitor is a daily key made from the IP address, the browser and your site, and the IP address is never stored.1 | Sets a _ga cookie to tell visitors apart, and a second one for sessions, each kept for 2 years.2 | Nodium |
| Asking visitors first | No cookies to ask about. Whether counting without them needs consent where you are is a question for you and your adviser.1 | Consent mode changes what Google's tags collect by what visitors agree to.3 | Nodium |
| Numbers held back | Every figure's rule is on How we count, including when it waits: a rate needs 30 visitors behind it, and places with too few visitors to name are grouped as Other.4 | Data thresholds can hold some data back, and you can't change them.5 | Nodium |
| Insights in plain English | “What we noticed”: insights from written rules, each with how it was counted. No AI.6 | Analytics Intelligence finds them with machine learning and conditions you set.7 We didn't find how each one is counted on that page. | Nodium |
| Form analysis | Reads each form on your own site field by field, never what anyone types: who saw it, who started it, who sent it (where your site shows a send), the field where people stop and the fields the form marked wrong. Nothing to set up.8 | Enhanced measurement records a form start and a form submit on your own forms, and you compare the two. Their details appear in reports once you create custom dimensions for them.9 We didn't find a report by field on that page. | Nodium |
| Search, speed and accessibility checks | Weekly search, speed and accessibility checks, with a fix list.10 | We didn't find this on Google Analytics's pages. | Nodium |
When to pick Nodium
Pick Nodium if you want one page you can read in a minute, no cookies, and your forms read field by field with nothing to set up. The two can run side by side.
Sources
- Nodium Docs: Privacy on your site, opened October 18, 2026
- Google for Developers: Set up consent mode on websites, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium: How we count, opened October 18, 2026
- Analytics Help: [GA4] About data thresholds, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What we noticed, opened October 18, 2026
- Analytics Help: [GA4] Analytics Insights, opened October 20, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What the script reads, opened October 23, 2026
- Analytics Help: Enhanced measurement events, opened October 23, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Weekly site checks, opened October 18, 2026
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