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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 đŸ‡ȘđŸ‡ș subtitle

Plausible Analytics is not designed to be a clone of Google Analytics. It is meant as a simple-to-use replacement and a privacy-friendly alternative that can help many site owners.

  • It's quick, simple to use and understand with all the metrics displayed on one page. Doesn't track hundreds of metrics like Google Analytics does

  • Lightweight script of less than 1 KB so sites load fast. The script is 45 times smaller script than the Google Analytics one

  • Doesn't use cookies so there's no need to worry about cookie banners

  • Doesn't track personal data so it's compliant with GDPR out of the box and you don't need to worry about asking for data consent

  • It's open source with the code available on GitHub so you can even self host exactly the same product free as in beer

  • Unlike Google Analytics, the cloud product is not free as in beer because the business model is subscriptions rather than selling the data of your visitors. Plausible Analytics is bootstrapped without any external funding so the subscription fees help cover the costs and time spent on development.

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  • Web
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  • Google Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Safari
  • Wordpress
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  1. User avatar
     
    Happy Paying User :)

    I've been using plausible since Sep 2019 and never had any doubts about it. It provides me with everything I need related to visitor stats while keeping privacy in first place.

    It doesn't slow down my website loading speed (it's amazing, it's less than 1KB in size!), is not blocked by adblockers since it's not really a tracker tracker, and owners are super cool and they actually respond to every inquiry you could possibly have.

    If you're looking for de-googling your stuff, you can start with Plausible :)

    🏁 Competitors: Google Analytics, Matomo, Woopra
    👍 Pros:    Loading speed|Clean ui|Privacy concisous|Custom domain|Affordable prices|Easy integration|Super simple
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    Plausibly simple analytics!

    I tried several analytics tools prior to Plausible, namely Google Analytics and later on Matomo. I found both to be fairly complicated for my usage which is a personal blog. Complicated in the way I had to install and use them. Plausible's simple to set up approach combined with a very clean and inviting user interface was a breath of fresh air. It's simple and clean enough that it actually makes me want to check and analyse my traffic which is a feeling I never thought I'd have having tried alternatives.

    🏁 Competitors: Google Analytics, Simple Analytics, Matomo
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    Excellent alternative to google analytics

    It offers clear information about what I really need, without distractions, without advertising and does not slow my site.

    🏁 Competitors: Google Analytics

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We have tracked the following product recommendations or mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you see what people think about Plausible.io and what they use it for.
  • We need to Speak about Google Code Quality
    I could do the same exercise with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, but luckily I don't need to, since Plausible already did. A piece of advice, rip out Google Analytics and use Plausible instead. It first of all doesn't destroy your website, and secondly it doesn't violate the GDPR - So you can embed it on your site without having to warn your visitors about that they're being spied on by Google. - Source: dev.to / 2 days ago
  • Show HN: Open-Source Ad-Free File Upload Service
    Also, currently we are using https://plausible.io/ for analytics. No other bugs. - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago
  • Plausible as an alternative to Google Analytics
    I just swapped out Google Analytics with Plausible for AINIRO.IO. It’s only been a week, but so far I am super jazzed about it. First of all, Plausible doesn’t use cookies, so I can completely drop all cookie disclaimers and popups I had because of GDPR. Second of all, the site scores significantly better on load time. This results in a 10x better user experience for my website visitors, while making sure the... - Source: dev.to / 8 days ago
  • Simple no bs persistent notepad
    No clue what you mean, browser cache might even clear itself without you doing anything manually. This thing makes no sense. Nowhere ever did it say Tech Demo anywhere, not in the HN headline, not on the page itself. No, thanks. And even as a tech demo, there is nothing impressive going in. It is stores shit to local storage, I guess. Lol, I just looked this up, and it was in Firefox on 2009 already? WHAT?... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
  • Using Analytics on My Website
    > Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake. GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/ Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing. That said,... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago
  • Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
    Plausible - Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago
  • 11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
    There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted. - Source: dev.to / 6 months ago
  • Switching to Elixir
    Even one developer startups have had huge success using elxir https://plausible.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago
  • Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?
    You log the IP address, referrer, user agent and the requested page URL but you don't set a unique cookie to identify the user. This still gets you plenty of actionable analytics information: where geographically people are located (via GeoIP), what pages are most popular, what platforms (including desktop vs mobile) people are using. I've been using https://plausible.io for analytics on a bunch of my sites for a... - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago
  • A Developer's Guide to Blogging
    The analytics provider I've gone with is Plausible. Sadly it's not free - about $9 a month - but it's easy to use, lightweight (the script is less than 1kb), and respects privacy, so it's worth a look IMO. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago
  • Ask HN: Any good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
    It has less features, but Plausible[1] is pretty good at basics. [1] https://plausible.io. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago
  • It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
    Or you need to use some other static site generator to build the HTML table from JSON. Something very simple, but yet so difficult. I liked that it was possible to use SQLite3 in production for Ghost. It worked very well and scales as well since it is mostly read operation, but they are officially dropping support for production and using only MySQL. I guess the one argument was, that sending emails for many... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Companies must stop using Google Analytics
    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... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Companies must stop using Google Analytics
    For those who look for an alternative https://plausible.io is a great replacement. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Swedish Authority for Privacy Protection (IMY): Companies must stop using Google Analytics
    For something privacy-oriented, I'd look at https://plausible.io/ ... I'm not an Adobe fan but they have a good product for enterprise users. I didn't care for SEMRush's tools when we tested it last year. Source: 10 months ago
  • From SPA to SSR on AWS: Boost Your Website’s SEO
    Without analytics it's like walking in the dark without any light. We need to track visits, visits duration, users behavior and so on so forth. Nowadays, before reading something online, you need to give access (deny if they let you) to cookies, privacy policies, TOS, newsletter signups
. I just want to read a few interesting paragraphs, I don't want to buy a car! That's where Plausible comes in. Let's explore... - Source: dev.to / 11 months ago
  • Analytics and total time spent on the app
    Maybe self host plausible (https://plausible.io/)? Should be simpler than rolling your own solution. Source: 10 months ago
  • Has anyone found a great solution for building analytics in your app?
    I think you might have the term of art wrong - it sounds like you're looking for a charting library, rather than an analytics tool? (most folks assume analytics in the sense of product analytics, like https://plausible.io/ or https://amplitude.com/). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago
  • Site analytics for open source project?
    I self-host Plausible to do this for my projects. If you want an example, I make my analytics open here. Source: 11 months ago
  • Do Any Startups Still Use WordPress After 20 Years?
    Docusaurus on Netlify with the Netlify CMS panel is the more popular method for agile and scrappy startups currently. Plausible is doing this: https://plausible.io/ Also Algolia: https://docsearch.algolia.com/docs/what-is-docsearch. - Source: Hacker News / 11 months ago
  • LF a Service to Monitor Web Visits
    It seems like you just want a self hsoted google analytics. Theres Plausible , Matomo and Umami for that. Source: 11 months ago

External sources with reviews and comparisons of Plausible.io

Top 5 open source alternatives to Google Analytics
Plausible is a newer kid on the open source analytics tools block. It’s lean, it’s fast, and only collects a small amount of information — that includes numbers of unique visitors and the top pages they visited, the number of page views, the bounce rate, and referrers. Plausible is simple and very focused.
Source: opensource.com
Privacy-oriented alternatives to Google Analytics
I learned about Plausible just recently, but they deserve to be on top of this list for me. Their platform is completely Open Source on GitHub under the MIT license. I personally also like that it’s written in Elixir.
Source: nts.strzibny.name
Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics
Plausible is another relatively new analytics tool that was launched in early 2019. Soon after launching, it switched to open source, with the code licensed under the permissive MIT license. The company's business model is to charge for the hosting, with pricing aimed at small businesses. In addition to making its source code available, Plausible is one of an increasing number of companies that has a...
Source: lwn.net

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