Google Analytics Alternatives

Comments recommend privacy-friendly, cookie-less, and self-hosted web analytics tools like Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, and Simple Analytics as alternatives to Google Analytics, highlighting GDPR compliance and data privacy benefits.

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ushakov Apr 30, 2022 View on HN

i'd recommend Plausiblepersonally using them as API to integrate analytics for my customer's sitesmain reason i choose Plausible is because it is made by a EU-based company honouring EU privacy values, meaning no cookies, no personal data collection and easy data exportthe team is very responsive and are happy to take feedbackthey are sustainable and make money offering a hosted serviceht

dirktheman Mar 14, 2019 View on HN

Awesome work! I had the same issues with GA, but decided to go with Matomo (Piwik). It's an Open Source, self-hosted alternative to Analytics. So far I couldn't be more impressed!

ZephyrBlu Oct 6, 2020 View on HN

Have you heard of Fathom Analytics? Maybe it meets your needs.https://usefathom.com

arbol Apr 11, 2020 View on HN

Piwik is free and does everything GA does. You can self host the analytics dashboard so no 3rd party privacy issues.

colesantiago Apr 2, 2021 View on HN

why not just use google analytics and be done with it?

gregors May 17, 2023 View on HN

I've been pretty happy with plausible analytics. They have a hosted solution as well.https://github.com/plausible/analytics

donohoe Jan 13, 2022 View on HN

Not the only provider, worth looking at Plausible.https://plausible.io/

markosaric Sep 30, 2020 View on HN

There are some already. I'm working on Plausible Analytics. Modern dashboard, simple metrics to understand, open source, can be self-hosted, lightweight script (https://plausible.io/

jvanderbot Jun 24, 2024 View on HN

Shout out to Plausible for open-source, dead-simple, Saas-or-self-hosted analytics.https://plausible.io

abhin4v May 11, 2019 View on HN

Why not use a self-hosted analytics software like https://matomo.org/ ?