Plausible Analytics

Name: Plausible Analytics
Rating: 4.89 (38 reviews)

Simple analytics for your website

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Simple analytics for your website

4.9•38 reviews•

304 followers

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A privacy focused, open source alternative to Google Analytics that lets you measure your traffic and gives you 100% data ownership.

Launch tags:Open Source•Analytics•Privacy

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Plausible Analytics

Maker

Hello PH! 👋 Plausible Analytics launched about a year and a half ago and we're finally on Product Hunt! $3,919 MRR, more than 600 paying subscribers, removed Google Analytics from more than 3,600 websites and counted 59,351,293 pageviews in the last month. Take a look at our open stats / live demo. Here's what makes us different from Google Analytics: 🚀 Quick and simple to use with all the metrics displayed on one page 📊 Actionable and useful features such as referral and page drilldowns, and metrics such as visit duration by referral source 🤘 Lightweight script of less than 1 KB so sites load fast (45 times smaller script than the Google Analytics script) 👥 We don't use cookies and don't track personal data so you don't need to bother your visitors with the cookie/GDPR banners 🇪🇺 All the data is secured, encrypted and hosted on a server in the EU to ensure it's covered by the strict data privacy laws 👐 Open source and self-hostable with the code available on GitHub We build everything in the open with a public roadmap so would love to hear your feedback and feature requests. Thank you!

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@thomas thanks Thomas! we don't have any coupons unfortunately. as explained below, we want to help as many site owners as possible remove GA so we're doing what we can to keep prices as affordable as we can by default (starting at $4/month on yearly plans) while at the same time trying to run a sustainable startup. we also have a free as in beer self-hosted version (exact same product as our Cloud version). we may be able to reduce prices even further in the future as we scale and hopefully get some bigger users but not at this time unfortunately. sorry!

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6yr ago

Worklight

@thomas It's already cheap, this is an unreasonable request

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6yr ago

ClubLink

Congrats on launching @markosaric and @ukutaht! Looks really neat! High on my list when I get to dropping GA

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@ukutaht @spekulatius1984 thank you Peter!

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6yr ago

WikiSpaces 3D

@markosaric looks cool. One question: GA has issues properly tracking sessions on client-rendered react SPAs (it only sees the page entry, no further page changes). How does Plausible handle this?

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6yr ago

Just love this product & what you’re building! Side note: VERY cool transparency towards marketing in your About section 👍🏼 Huge upvote & well wishes from me!

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@rufusdenne Thank you Rufus, appreciate the kind words! We're trying to show that you can grow a startup without following all the "best marketing practices". We don't do: Paid advertising Pixels from Facebook and Google Retargeting Session recordings A/B testing Affiliate marketing Podcasts/videos Fancy email sequences Popups Chat bots https://plausible.io/about

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6yr ago

BlockSurvey

@rufusdenne @markosaric this is a huge inspiration(ethical tech) in times of today.

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6yr ago

@markosaric yeah - I love it. “Best marketing practices” is pretty oxymoronic anyway... doing what everyone else is doing, only makes your marketing predictable, boring and (ultimately) forgettable.

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@rufusdenne @wilsonbright thank you Wilson! people that run startups can start this ethical tech movement. Google/Facebook and other big tech are too deep in surveillance capitalism to make any unforced changes for the better.

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@rufusdenne makes sense!

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6yr ago

Baseline

Very nice product, I've been following you guys for a while since you keep popping up all over the place. One thing I'm curious about, I noticed when you click "More" in the Top Sources section, you happen to include "Direct" right there next to all the websites. This is something I've always wondered why other analytics tools don't do because I actually do want to compare it with the referral websites. So I was wondering if you could include that in the dashboard as well? Or do you have to always click on "More" to see it?

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@gillisig thanks Gilli! we added "direct / no referrer" recently as some people were wondering about the gap between their total visitors and the number of visitors between all the referrals combined (the gap is caused by all the dark traffic that falls within direct). we asked the community about this and with the feedback we got we decided to only show it when you click on "more" because of two things: It's not an actionable metric while we try to focus on actionable metrics on the dashboard It would skew the comparison between all the other sources as "direct / no referrer" will be top for most sites and stand for a lot of traffic while makes all the other sources indistinguishable on our bar you can see the process we went through for this addition on our open development roadmap where you can see other comments, discussions, links to twitter and mastodon threads about this etc. see https://github.com/plausible/ana...

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6yr ago

Baseline

@markosaric Nice, thanks for the detailed reply. I'm glad that there is finally somebody that allows you to easily compare them side by side. Good luck with the product!

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@gillisig thank you!

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6yr ago

Looks GREAT! Few questions » A) Where does all the data get stored (US/EU)? B ) Is there a way to export weekly or monthly reports? C) Is it multilingual (german)? D) Are (crawling) bots tracked as unique visitors? Thank you ✌

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6yr ago

I just saw that you already answered A) on the top of all comments. What are the (minimum) system requirements?

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6yr ago

B ) automated email reports is answered as well 😊

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@hi_iamben thanks Ben! yep - all in the EU and weekly and/or monthly email reports. about c) only english at this stage d) we filter out bots by default. most bots don't use JavaScript so that's one and otherwise we filter out bots that identify themselves via User-Agent and minimum system requirements for self-hosting: that really depends on the amount of traffic you get. there's a bit more info in our self-hosting docs https://github.com/plausible/ana...

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6yr ago

@markosaric Thank you for your quick reply! 👌

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6yr ago

@markosaric So it's 100% self-hosted? Your plans (pricing) does not include hosting? Did I get that right? Also » Would be nice to get more insight into users location, than just country. To be more precise zoom in to one country and get more details. Thanks in advance 🙏

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6yr ago

Congrats!!! GDPR (EU) compatibility has been a huge cacophony in the market... Especially at the US/EU divide. Is the source code licenced under CC (creative commons)? How do you protect against competitors snatching source to proprietary?

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@zurgun thanks Zeynep! we're fully open source under the most permissive MIT license. This means that there are no restrictions on redistributing, modifying or using our software for any reason.

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6yr ago

@markosaric yep I know that one!!! Open Innovation crew @MIT. Thank you for sharing. Kudos!

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6yr ago

I was an early adopter of Plausible Analytics and I'm very happy to see how far its come. Plausible made the world of analytics accessible and simple for me. Previous attempts with tools like Google Analytics failed miserably for all kinds of reasons (bloated UIs, terrible UX, too expensive etc) Plausible ticks all the boxes: ✅ Clean user interface ✅ Simple and intuitive user experience ✅ Affordable Plausible helps me answer all the questions I have in the fastest way possible. I never thought I'd come to the point that I'd want to check my analytics page frequently but that's how easy and enjoyable Plausible made it for me. The best part? No need to put the cookie banner on your site either because Plausible respects your users privacy ✅

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@makiso thank you Makis! that's very nice to hear!

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6yr ago

I’m using Plausible for several months now and I couldn’t be happier! They keep adding new great features, while the script itself gets lighter. I’m happy to may a small fee every month instead of giving all my data to Google. Supporting indie devs is also always nice 😀

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6yr ago

Plausible Analytics

Maker

@haltakov thank you for the kind words Vladimir and for the support! not sure we can continue adding new features while reducing the script size for much longer but we'll aim to always keep it under 1 KB :)

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6yr ago

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Reviewers mostly see Plausible Analytics as a clean, fast, privacy-first replacement for Google Analytics that is easy to set up and good enough for personal sites, small products, and client work. People repeatedly praise its simple dashboard, bot filtering, cookie-banner removal, and smooth use with static sites, Next.js, and custom subdomains. A few makers also say, from building products like Harbor, that goals and custom properties are useful for tracking real signups. The main criticism is that reporting can feel basic, docs may be outdated, and support can be weak.

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