Your dashboard can tell you the bounce rate.
It can’t tell you if anyone finished reading.

Analytics focused on what happens when someone actually experiences your content, not just whether the page loaded. Instead of sessions, pageviews, and bounce rate, it measures whether readers progressed through what you published and whether they reached the actions you built into it.

Traditional analytics tells you about the audience: where they came from, what device they used, how many pages they viewed. Semantic Journey tells you about the content experience itself: how far a specific reader got through a specific piece, and whether they acted on it. The two are complementary, not competing.

Two things. Reader Progress reports how far readers got through a piece of content, using four fixed milestones: Started Reading, Reached the Middle, Read Most, and Reached the End. Decision Point reports how many times readers clicked something you have decided matters, such as a donate button, a phone number, or a signup link. Both are reported as plain counts, not percentages or scores.

No. Semantic Journey stores no cookies, no session identifiers, and no personal data of any kind, for either module. It records aggregate daily counts per piece of content. No individual reader can be identified from the data at any point.

No. It answers two narrower editorial questions well: how far readers got, and whether they reached the actions that matter. It will not tell you where your traffic came from, what device someone used, or your total visitor count. If you need broader traffic data, use it alongside a general analytics tool, not instead of one.

Not for the common cases. Phone number, email, and text message links are all detected automatically with no setup. Everything else can be set up as a URL pattern rule in Settings, matching links by address, with no template editing. A developer marker is available for precise control if you want it, but it is optional.

Yes. Semantic Journey's two current modules, Reader Progress and Decision Point, are free, along with Reports and CSV export. Nothing about either module is held back behind a license key.

Yes. Semantic Journey works on any public post type, not only posts and pages: products, portfolio items, or any custom post type your site uses.

No. Semantic Journey stores aggregate daily counts, not a row per visit or per event. A busy site with years of traffic still adds up to a small, bounded number of rows per piece of content, not a table that grows with every page view. Nothing about either module touches your public-facing page load time.