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Smol Analytics vs Google Analytics 4: The Practical Guide for Growing Businesses

A candid comparison between Smol Analytics and Google Analytics 4 on performance, implementation costs, privacy, and how AI agents are rendering legacy dashboards obsolete.

Aug 29, 2026

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How I Implemented Smol Analytics for Zyntopia: Self-Hosted Setup and Autonomous AI Monitoring

A complete build log of how I implemented Smol Analytics on a private VPS, instrumented Zyntopia's Next.js application, and connected AI agents for autonomous monitoring.

Aug 28, 2026

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The AI-Native Analytics Engine: Introducing Smol Analytics for Modern Businesses

How Smol Analytics replaces legacy tracking bloat and complex database clusters with a single cookieless binary, a universal ingestion API, and 94+ native AI agent tools over MCP.

Aug 27, 2026