Connect Simple Analytics
You need API key and Website. About two minutes.
1Get these from Simple Analytics
API key
sa_api_key_…- Sign in to Simple Analytics and open Account settings.
- In the API keys section, create a new key.
- Copy the key, which starts with sa_api_key_.
Account settings, API keys. It is what lets CreditBar read a private website.
Open the pagehttps://simpleanalytics.com/account
Website
example.com- Sign in to Simple Analytics and open the dashboard of the website you want.
- Copy its hostname as listed, for example example.com, or copy the dashboard page address.
The website's hostname as it appears in Simple Analytics, or the address of its dashboard page.
Open the pagehttps://simpleanalytics.com
2Add it to CreditBar
- Open CreditBar from the menu bar and choose Settings, then Accounts.
- Click Add account and pick Simple Analytics.
- Paste the API key and the Website into the matching fields, and give the account a label you will recognise.
- Click Test connection, then Add. Numbers appear in the menu bar within a minute.
Keys are stored in your Mac's Keychain and only ever sent to Simple Analytics. Nothing passes through a CreditBar server.
3What it reads
- Reports
- daily unique visitors and page views for the window, one call
- Calls
- https://simpleanalytics.com/{hostname}.json
- Refreshes
- At most every 15 minutes
- API docs
- Simple Analytics reference, checked 2026-09-28
Visitors are counted per day, so someone who comes back on three days counts three times across a longer window.