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Plausible.io Landing Page
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Plausible.io

Plausible Analytics is a simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure 🇪🇺
Pricing:
- Open Source
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $9.0 / Monthly (10,000 pageviews)
I am using a self-hosted Plausible [1] instance, which is GDPR-compliant out of the box with no cookies required. I am super happy with it. The only downside is that you need to run Postgres and Clickhouse which is overkill for my small sites (an option that only uses SQLite would be great). I don't want to track my users. I just want to see which pages get traffic. Sometimes I am also curious about where visitors come from (by country) and what devices they are using. In a newer update, they allow region tracking based on cities. I think this is too much information. I did not enable this and hope they won't add other more intrusive features. [1] https://plausible.io/.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 187 social mentions
Matomo Landing Page
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Matomo

Matomo is an open-source web analytics platform
Pricing:
- Open Source
I tried the self-hosted version of Matomo [1][2] a few years back but I remember it was a bit underwhelming for the effort required to set it up. https://matomo.org.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Privacy 82 social mentions
Fathom Analytics Landing Page
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Fathom Analytics

Simple, trustworthy website analytics (finally)
Pricing:
- Open Source
- $14.0 / Monthly (100,000 Pageviews)
Yes, you should absolutely not be using Google Analytics. They don't need more data, your users don't want to see cookie banners and most of you really don't need 99% of the data that you can filter through... I can't recommend Fathom (https://usefathom.com) enough. They have a huge focus on privacy-first tracking. You don't need to show a cookie banner and you can still track events etc. If you want $10 credit for signing up, use https://usefathom.com/james but otherwise, https://usefathom.com Seriously, Google Analytics sucks. Use anything other than that.

#Open Source #Analytics #Privacy 58 social mentions
Medium Landing Page
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Medium

Welcome to Medium, a place to read, write, and interact with the stories that matter most to you.
Pricing:
- Open Source
As a US-based company, they process (even if they don't store) the IP address. As such, the personal data of the EU users is transmitted under the control of the US Surveillance Act. No SCCs nor commercial contracts can shield this data. You might have a legitimate interest in processing the IP, but because of the aforementioned issues, you cannot provide sufficient controls nor protection of Personal Data. As such, using Cloudflare as your Data Processor, exposes You, the Data Controller, to DPA scrutiny. As always with GDPR/DPA and EU, whether it is illegal/non-compliant depends on each DPA. https://medium.com/@christhaefner/shopify-illegal-in-germany-4b7f61576aa3.

#Blogging #Blogging Platform #CMS 2189 social mentions