Best Free Plans for Website Visitor Analytics Tools
Google Analytics was once the visitor tracking tool everyone used. Now, Google seems not interested in serving smaller websites. Privacy is another issue. Fortunately, there are a number of providers for simple, pricacy-focused visitor analytics.
The tools listed here are an alternative to Google Analytics.
Popluar self-hosted alternative: Plausible
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Umami is a popluar open source alternative to Google Analytics. It's lightweight with a simple dashboard. Custom events are supported. GDPR compliant, however, it does fingerprinting to detect unique visitors.
Free plan
10,000 Events / Month
3 Websites
1 Year Data
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SimpleAnalytics is all about privcay. Unique visitors are deduced only by the referrer, no cookies, fingerprinting, hashes etc. Features: API access to all data, aggregated and raw (paid). Custom subdomain to avoid blockers (paid). Custom events. Flexible email reports. iPhone app. AI for insights.
Free plan
Fair Use Unlimited Views/Events
Mandatory Public Dashboard
60 Days Data
10 Websites
1 Email Report
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Clicky has been around for a long time and looks dated. However, the free tier is pretty nice. Basic stats, referrers, visitor actions and event API access is included. Unique visitor tracking is done by anonymizing IP addresses (GDPR compliancy claimed).
Free plan
3,000 Page Views / Day
31 Days Data
Tracking Suspension (no log in more than 60 days)
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This is a very new Google Analytics alternatives made by an indie dev. Expect only the basics. Data is stored in Germany. Unique visitor tracking is done by fingerprinting.
Free plan
10,000 Page Views / Month
2 Websites
1 User
1 Email Report