Add privacy-preserving funnel analytics

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Outcome

• tracks page views, installer copies, Stripe checkout clicks, GitHub clicks, and PyPI clicks
• carries UTM source/medium/campaign and referrer host without cookies or client IP logging
• adds dedicated Nginx access/event logs and a local funnel report helper
• records the live Nginx site configuration to prevent deployment drift

Production

Deployed to gate.cat VPS origin. Nginx configuration validated and reloaded; /events returns 204 and writes the expected event log. Removed two stale backup configs from sites-enabled (preserved under /var/backups/nginx/gatecat) that caused duplicate host warnings.

Tests

• uv run pytest -q tests/test_marketing_consistency.py tests/test_funnel_report.py (5 passed)
• nginx -t (successful)
• public landing contains event script and does not contain pip install gate.cat
• production event smoke POST returned 204 and was recorded

Tracks #9

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Additional launch work now included:

• recorded 3 measured placements with direct permalinks: X, LinkedIn, Cursor Discord
• hardened event delivery after a real Firefox landing request did not produce a page event (fetch keepalive primary, beacon/image fallback)
• latest PyPI metric: 2,147 trailing-30-day downloads without known mirrors
• removed misleading global pip install CTA from coverage/blog surfaces
• updated GitHub repo description and v0.4.16 release install section to the inspectable two-step installer
• deployed and smoke-verified all changed public files on the VPS origin

Local targeted suite remains 5 passed; latest head is 0e62be6.

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Root-cause update for the broken install CTA:

• Regression source: the Claude Design restore commit 08e909f reintroduced a hard-coded pip install gate.cat string in six landing-page surfaces.
• Content fix: a9d263c replaced every landing CTA with the inspectable two-step installer.
• Cache fix: af66ca8 adds Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate for HTML/fallback responses so corrected copy cannot remain visible in a browser.
• Production verified: public https://gate.cat/ has 0 occurrences of pip install gate.cat; Cloudflare now returns the no-cache header.
• Regression coverage: uv run pytest -q tests/test_marketing_consistency.py → 5 passed.
• Production Nginx config validated and reloaded successfully; no benchmark or application process was touched.

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Growth progress update:

• Latest reliable PyPI trailing-30-day total: 2,147 downloads (pypistats is currently rate-limiting fresh reads).
• Stripe since launch: 0 subscriptions, 0 charges, 0 payment intents.
• GitHub: 0 stars, 0 forks, 0 watchers.
• First-party funnel: 1 unique page_view; 0 installer-copy or checkout events so far.
• Added GitHub discovery topics cursor and developer-tools (20/20 topic slots now used).
• Prepared and committed a native YouTube Short: 1080×1920, 24s, H.264, caption-first. Asset + reproducible filter are in commits 4971674 and 090bb1c.
• YouTube Studio channel Bogumił Jankiewicz is authenticated and ready. Upload is paused only because the ChatGPT Chrome extension lacks local-file URL access; no publication is counted without a verified public permalink.
• PR Add privacy-preserving funnel analytics #20 CI is running on Python 3.11–3.13; merge will follow green checks.

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Handoff after this growth pass:

• PR Add privacy-preserving funnel analytics #20 merged as 1ad38ab: production funnel analytics, stale-copy prevention, and the reproducible YouTube Short asset.
• PR docs: record GitHub launch follow-up #21 merged as a8b1e3b: canonical publication ledger now records the verified GitHub Discussion conversion follow-up.
• New verified publication: gate.cat 0.4.16 is live — local vetoes before agent actions run #12 (comment)
• Dedicated tracked landing: https://gate.cat/?utm_source=github&utm_medium=discussion&utm_campaign=launch_20260714
• Repository discovery topics now include cursor and developer-tools.
• Current evidence remains 2,147 trailing-30-day PyPI downloads (latest reliable read), 0 Stripe subscriptions/charges/payment intents, 0 GitHub stars, and 1 measured page-view session.
• YouTube Short is ready and the authenticated Studio tab is left open as a handoff. Exact blocker: Chrome → chrome://extensions → ChatGPT Chrome Extension → Details → enable Allow access to file URLs. After that, upload can resume without recreating the asset.