Pre installation question

Hi there,

I run an e-commerce (WooCommerce) website and need to use statistics to help us improve our sales, retention etc. I am happy to move on from GA4 which I am not a big fan of.

1. Is there any way we can completely do without a cookie banner (which would be great), if we anonymize the data we collect? The problem is we need to see which social media platforms people come from (with UTM tags) and things like that. So we cannot really anonymize the link which brought the user to us. I am not sure if that falls foul of GDPR rules.

2. Does your standalone plugin add to front-end page load times? I imagine it has to load js scripts of some sort on every page?

3. Can we easily track Google Ad conversions?

4. Do we need to worry about the database size, when we are saving all this data on our server. Do you have any comparison information, based on website visits and how much data this equates to over a yearly period?

5. Is there any way we can add an extra layer of security to where the data is saved on our server? I am no expert with hosting, but it is a worry we are responsible for this data.

Thanks!