Plausible Analytics
@PlausibleHQ
📈 Google Analytics alternative 🚀 Intuitive & lightweight 🛡️ Open source & privacy-first 🍪 No cookies & no need for GDPR banner ♥️ Subscriber-funded
January not only marked our 5th anniversary but it was also our best month yet in terms of MRR growth! We’re celebrating these milestones with our first logo redesign in all this time. Here’s to the next 5 years! 🙏😍🎉
There's been some discussion about many web analytics tools counting pageviews without actual visitors. This happens when Chromium-based browsers, WordPress, etc., pre-render a page (for quicker loading) before an actual click has occurred. The visitor may or may not click and…
Second guessing the numbers on an Analytics dashboard defeats the purpose of analytics. Accuracy matters.
How to scale with Plausible when you have too many websites to track and don't want to add them through the UI one-by-one? ➡️ Make use of our Sites API. You can: - List all your sites and teams - Create or delete sites in second - Update domains or site names - Auto-generate…
A/B test results usually yield much more insight than just "who was the winner." It's possible that: - While Headline A gets 20% more sign-ups, Headline B slashes the bounce rate and encourages visitors twice as far down the page. Or, - One CTA leads to more clicks, but also a…
💌 A note to all We've given Plausible our consistent presence, deepest focus, and wholehearted energy––for more than 6 years. It's driven by a genuine belief in the need for a more private web, and we keep doing our part by building simple, useful and elegant analytics. We’ve…
You don't need to manually forward your Plausible invoices to your Accounting department every month. ✅ You can just directly add them as a billing manager when creating a team... This doesn't grant them access to your sites or other settings, but makes the billing process…
When you open real-time view and see live visitors > 1
Pageviews down? It's probably just a Friday thing. 🤷
Number 1️⃣ reason we choose to be a fully remote team, not limited to borders: It gives us the freedom to connect and work with people who genuinely care about our mission & share the same values – and that's generally not limited to where people live. Number 2️⃣ reason: working…
We’ve just made it even easier to get around ad blockers and keep your stats accurate. Introducing: Managed Proxy ✨ While you've always had the option (and still do) to proxy the Plausible script yourself, through your own domain, making it look like a first-party request and…
Consent fatigue: When users are tired of clicking “Accept” on cookie banners and privacy popups, anywhere they go on the internet. They don't want to read through fine print or legalese when all they wanted was to read a simple article, watch a video, order stuff, etc.…
How we got 789K backlinks without a single backlink exchange or purchase? - Being an analytics service, many subscribers mention us and link to our data policy in their own privacy policy pages. - Marketplace listings (mostly organic) - We try to create as useful content as…
Even PewDiePie has "de-googled" his life now. Google products can't be good for anybody's privacy. 🤷
Forced to click "Manage cookies" for the 500th time be like
How to build a profitable, sustainable, multi-million ARR business with a team of 10 and no investors? Beyond solving real pain points, launching on HackerNews, ProductHunt, etc., and content marketing... - Not distracted from the core problem. Once the problem (frustration…
"We make sure your data never leaves the EU." We say that a lot but what does that really mean in practice? 🌱 Hosted on renewable energy: in Falkenstein, Germany 🏢 Servers owned by Hetzner: a European infrastructure provider 🌐 Global CDN via Bunny: another EU-owned company…
A website can be environment-friendly too. Here's how we use a sustainable web design to minimize our carbon footprint: - Our website is hosted on @Hetzner_Online, whose servers run on renewable energy (hydropower). - We try to maintain our design minimal and focused — fewer…
Reason number 1673576 to stop using Google Analytics: ‼️ You need to spot and fix issues on your own - Are you seeing a (not set) in reports? - Your events aren't showing up?, or - The Debugview is not working? Time to fix it! Stop doing whatever you're doing and check if: -…