Comparisons
GhostlyX vs Google Analytics, Plausible, Fathom and More
See how GhostlyX compares to the most popular analytics tools on privacy, performance, and features.
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Google Analytics
Google Analytics 4 (GA4) is the most widely deployed web analytics platform in the world. It is free and deeply integrated with Google's advertising ecosystem, but it collects personal data, sets cookies by default, and routes all visitor data through Google's US-based servers.
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Plausible Analytics
Plausible Analytics is a bootstrapped, EU-based privacy-first analytics tool founded in Estonia in 2018. It is open-source under the AGPL-3.0 licence, cookie-free, and a well-regarded alternative to Google Analytics.
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Fathom Analytics
Fathom Analytics is a Canadian privacy-first analytics platform founded in 2018. It is independently bootstrapped, cookie-free, and one of the earliest serious alternatives to Google Analytics in the privacy-first space.
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Matomo
Matomo (formerly Piwik) is an open-source analytics platform founded in 2007. It can be self-hosted or used via Matomo Cloud. It is feature-rich and highly configurable, used by governments, NGOs, and large enterprises that need full data ownership.
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Pirsch Analytics
Pirsch is a cookie-free, privacy-first analytics tool built and hosted in Germany. It is focused on GDPR compliance, offers a clean minimalist dashboard, and provides a developer-friendly REST API.
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Simple Analytics
Simple Analytics is a Dutch privacy-first analytics tool founded in 2018. It is cookie-free, stores no personal data, and is hosted entirely on EU-based servers in the Netherlands.
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Umami
Umami is an open-source, self-hostable web analytics tool released in 2020. It offers a clean, minimal dashboard and is available as a managed cloud service or as a free self-hosted deployment.
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Clicky
Clicky is a real-time web analytics platform that has been running since 2006. It offers individual visitor logs, heatmaps, uptime monitoring, and aggressive bot filtering. It operates in a privacy-friendly mode by default and is used by over one million websites.
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PostHog
PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform founded in 2020 and based in San Francisco. It combines web analytics, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and surveys into a single self-hostable or cloud-hosted product.
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Mixpanel
Mixpanel is a product analytics platform founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Francisco. It focuses on event-based tracking for user behaviour, funnels, retention, and cohort analysis, and is widely used by product and growth teams at SaaS companies.
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Microsoft Clarity
Microsoft Clarity is a free behavioural analytics tool from Microsoft that provides session recordings, heatmaps, and basic traffic metrics. It launched in 2020 and is available at no cost to all users.
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Cloudflare Web Analytics
Cloudflare Web Analytics is a free, privacy-first analytics product from Cloudflare. It is available to anyone with a Cloudflare account and can collect data either via a JavaScript beacon or directly from Cloudflare's edge network without any client-side script.
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Vercel Analytics
Vercel Web Analytics is a privacy-friendly analytics feature built into the Vercel deployment platform. It is available to all Vercel users, with a free tier of 50,000 events per month for Hobby plans and usage-based pricing for Pro and Enterprise teams.
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GoatCounter
GoatCounter is a lightweight, open-source web analytics tool created by Martin Tournoij in 2019. It is free for non-commercial use and available as a self-hosted or hosted service at goatcounter.com.
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Hotjar
Hotjar is a behaviour analytics platform founded in 2014 and headquartered in Malta. It specialises in heatmaps, session recordings, and user feedback surveys. It was acquired by Contentsquare in 2021.
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Adobe Analytics
Adobe Analytics is an enterprise-grade digital analytics platform that is part of the Adobe Experience Cloud. It offers advanced segmentation, real-time data, multi-channel attribution, and deep integration with Adobe's marketing and advertising products.
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StatCounter
StatCounter is one of the oldest web analytics services, founded in 1999 in Ireland. It offers real-time visitor logs, traffic analysis, and browser/device breakdowns, and has historically been used as a lightweight Google Analytics alternative.
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Piwik PRO
Piwik PRO is an enterprise analytics suite from Poland built for organisations in regulated industries such as healthcare, government, and finance. It bundles a web analytics platform, a tag manager, a consent management platform, and data activation into a single product.
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Amplitude
Amplitude is a product analytics platform founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco. It is one of the most widely used product analytics tools at SaaS companies, with a web analytics module added more recently. It is publicly traded (AMPL) and used by organisations including Shopify, Atlassian, and Peloton.
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KISSmetrics
KISSmetrics is a person-level behavioural analytics platform first launched in 2008 and relaunched under new ownership. It focuses on tying revenue attribution to individual user journeys across SaaS and e-commerce, with nine report types and native email campaign capabilities.
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Heap
Heap is a product analytics platform that automatically captures every user interaction on your site or app without requiring manual event instrumentation. It was founded in 2013, acquired by Contentsquare in 2023, and is based in San Francisco.