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Blog of Simple Analytics
Company blog · simpleanalytics.com/blog · on HN as AdriaanvRossumsecuritywebbusiness
Blog of Simple Analytics is the company blog at simpleanalytics.com, writing about security, web and business. Since 2019, 55 different Hacker News readers have linked it 128 times, most often “Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-11-20, and you can follow it by feed.
Sometimes recommended · 6 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Privacy-focused, no-cookie website analytics product. HN commenters mostly name it as a Google Analytics alternative, and a few mention its public traffic and revenue pages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Run Simple Analytics alongside GA4 to compare observed website traffic. Book a demo to plan a free 30-day proof of concept.
Most-linked posts?
- /18 people · 24 mentions · first linked 2019-09-06
- /10 people · 16 mentions · first linked 2019-05-11
- /5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2022-09-21
- Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-10-16
- Google changed Google Maps URL: Your location data is no longer safe3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-01-05
- From 101 noyb complaints to banning Google Analytics – The complete overview3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-08-20
- /2 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-06-30
- How to move forward with data transfers between the EU and US2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-10-08
- /istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_source=istheshipstillstuck.com&utm_content=badge2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-03-31
- Italian chatGPT clone has open traffic metrics and they are insane2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-14
What Hacker News says?
https://simpleanalytics.com/ Says this on their homepage: We don't use cookies or collect any personal data. So no cookie banners, GDPR, CCPA, or PECR to worry about. Seems like a cool company/project to me. But, it's not free :( $19/mo Still thought it's worth pointing out.
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on “No Cookie for You”Submitted Simple Analytics hits $4k MRR and shares its numbers as a story · 288 points
HN discussionOver the last few months I have had ~30,0000 visits to my website, almost entirely from HN, and I was disheartened to find that 52% of visitors were using Chrome[1]. Given the pro-open-web and anti-FAANG sentiments that's shared on HN I had expected slightly different results. [1]: https://simpleanalytics.com/vishnu.tech?start=2019-10-18&end...
Comment linking /vishnu.tech?start=2019-10-18&end=2020-10-18
on “Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings”Submitted Google's widespread tracking across the web as a story · 89 points
HN discussionFor who needs a summary of what is happening in the EU [1] 1. Since 2020, it's illegal to send personal data to the US because of the invalidation of the Privacy Shield [2] 2. Google said it was okay in the EU to use anonymized IP addresses 3. The Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB) [3] ruled differently and waived most of the arguments raised by Google. The DSB ruled that even anonymized IP addresses are perso…
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted Italian Hacktivists launch campaign against Google Analytics as a story · 25 points
HN discussionThere is a privacy-first alternative called: https://simpleanalytics.com/
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted Finland is the latest EU country to crack down on Google Analytics as a story · 22 points
HN discussionFor the french people on HN: There is a privacy-first alternative called: https://simpleanalytics.com/
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted US data transfer unlawful according to German procurement authority as a story · 22 points
HN discussionFor other French people here: there is a great privacy-friendly alternative: https://simpleanalytics.com
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted France directs schools to stop using Microsoft Office and Google Workspace as a story · 17 points
HN discussionRegarding forbidden countries, it’s not forbidden in the Netherlands, yet. They will announce a verdict in a form of a report by the end of 2022 [1]. To give people an option and pink something else over Google Analytics, I have built an alternative, Simple Analytics [2]. It doesn’t use cookies or any form of tracking and you get still the useful data that 80% of the website owners need. [1] https://autoriteitpersoo…
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on “Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics”Submitted Denmark declares Google Analytics unlawful as a story · 15 points
HN discussionIt is. Most startups in the EU have to use more and more businesses in the EU. The selection is little, so way more changes to succeed if your EU based and serve both markets. I run Simple Analytics [1], which is a privacy-first analytics business from the Netherlands. I see a lot of business from the EU just because we are from the EU as well. [1] https://simpleanalytics.com/?ref=hn
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on “Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics”Submitted Is Google Analytics 4 GDPR compliant? as a story · 14 points
HN discussiondon’t forget https://simpleanalytics.com/
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on “Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics”Submitted US data transfer unlawful according to German procurement authority as a story · 13 points
HN discussionInterestingly, according to [1] there were only ~11k visitors from Hackernews for a post on the front page that had ~1k comments. I would've estimated the visitor/comment ratio to be much, much higher. [1] https://simpleanalytics.com/istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_sour...
Comment linking /istheshipstillstuck.com?utm_source=istheshipstillstuck.com&utm_content=badge
on “Inside a viral website”Submitted Google will start tracking all your devices (WTF?) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI've been using a similar tool: https://simpleanalytics.com/ . I wish they'd offer more plans between the first 2 cheapest, though. My open-source project is hitting the basic plan limits and the next offer is too expensive for me.
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted Norway takes a stance against Google Analytics as a story · 11 points
HN discussionThanks for mentioning Simple Analytics [1]. We are at this point indeed only cloud based. We believe we need to make a business case/profit first before putting a lot of extra work in a open source version and maybe failing with the business. It's a dream to make it open source, but not at this time. We are very firm on our values. We will never sell your data. We have many ways to get your raw data out of our syste…
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted Black Friday (But Different) as a story · 11 points
HN discussionYes! There are many options! Log parsing is an option. There are self hosted options. There are also services like https://simpleanalytics.com/ (I have not used them or know much about them tbh). Personally, on my recent projects I start without analytics. If I want to measure health or growth, I define my own "metrics" and use sql or logs to generate. I don't need to know what country you are in. I don't need to kn…
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on “Latest Firefox Brings Privacy Protections Front and Center”Submitted Our Promise as a story · 10 points
HN discussionMy side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner There are so many play…
Comment linking /playtoearn.one?period=month&count=1
on “Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell”Submitted The EU wants to kill cookiebanners by moving consent to the browser as a story · 9 points
HN discussionIf they use https://www.simpleanalytics.com/data-collection then that is the list they collect. So it does not seem to collect IP. Of course it is sent to their servers but they publicly state they don't collect it.
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on “Statichost.eu – European static site hosting”Submitted Italian Hacktivists launch campaign against Google Analytics as a story · 9 points
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