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Fathom Analytics
Company blog · usefathom.com/blogwebbusiness
Fathom Analytics is the company blog at usefathom.com, writing about web and business. Since 2018, 115 different Hacker News readers have linked it 207 times, most often “Fathom – simple, trustworthy website analytics”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Privacy-focused website analytics from a sustainable company. A GDPR compliant, Google Analytics alternative.
Most-linked posts?
- Fathom – simple, trustworthy website analytics34 people · 43 mentions · first linked 2018-04-16
- Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics17 people · 20 mentions · first linked 2018-06-12
- Someone Attacked Our Company13 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2020-11-23
- Building the world’s fastest website analytics (2021)7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-03-30
- /features/eu-isolation5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-12-20
- 10M page views in a few hours for an analytics platform4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2020-08-19
- We Ditched DynamoDB4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-09-29
- Two Database Migrations and a Divorce4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2026-07-10
- Does removing Google Analytics hurt your search engine ranking?3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2020-05-04
- Does Laravel Scale?3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2022-05-16
What Hacker News says?
The pricing page [1] is linked further down, and from the sitemap at the bottom of the page. You have a point they should have made it more obvious though. https://usefathom.com/pricing
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on “No Cookie for You”Submitted Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics as a story · 269 points
HN discussionAnd when people want analytics they often just really want headline numbers that do not require user tracking. E.g. I've started using Fathom [1]. It's very basic, but for the sites I use it on all I really want to know is if traffic is going up or down or if any specific pages are suddenly getting lots of traffic. [1] https://usefathom.com
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on “No Cookie for You”Submitted Someone attacked our company as a story · 234 points
HN discussionhttps://usefathom.com/ (what we use), plausible.io, umami.is
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted How we built a GDPR-compliant website analytics platform without using cookies as a story · 207 points
HN discussionYes! I'm currently using https://usefathom.com/ , works pretty great
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on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”Submitted Dear internet: We must ban targeted advertising immediately as a story · 102 points
HN discussionWe've been working on something that has yet to be added to this list, but I feel it's worth mentioning. It's a self-hosted OS alternative to Google Analytics, much like Matomo (formerly Piwik) but less focused on developers and way more opinionated in terms of what data is visualized. It's called Fathom Analytics[1]. Eventually we want to provide a paid hosted option much like what Ghost is offering to make sure we…
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on “Alternatives to Google Products”Submitted Make your website a black hole to big tech as a story · 80 points
HN discussionJust a quick reminder, that Fathom started its Pro offering only a few days ago: https://usefathom.com/ It's also Open Source so you can see for yourself what is going on, or even self-host.
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on “Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics”Submitted Building the world’s fastest website analytics (2021) as a story · 52 points
HN discussionFathom thought about data and privacy policy too: https://usefathom.com/data/
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on “Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics”Submitted Reducing our AWS bill by $100k as a story · 51 points
HN discussionI am using fathom [1] for this. They allow hosting the backend yourself and your analytics are not publicly accessible. Biggest con is that each installation can only track one domain as of now. [1]: https://usefathom.com
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on “Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics”Submitted Does Laravel Scale? as a story · 44 points
HN discussionYes, it is! Ask Jack Ellis at Fathom Analytics, they're doing this for their customers: https://usefathom.com/blog/bypass-adblockers -- and I think they have a new blog post and video coming out soon about it. Feel free to post in our forums with questions! https://caddy.community
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on “Show HN: Caddy 2”Submitted We Rebuilt Fathom Analytics from the ground up and moved to Laravel Vapor as a story · 35 points
HN discussionOr, try switching to a privacy focused analytics solution that values your users privacy, and provides the simple metrics that you need. Fathom Analytics: https://usefathom.com/ref/IKHKIT
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on “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast”Submitted Fathom Analytics has been acquired as a story · 17 points
HN discussionInteresting take. For every star we had on GitHub we did 21 cents in monthly revenue for (around $1300). We needed to turn Fathom into a viable competitor to Google Analytics. We can't do that if we are working a few hours a week on it, we needed to be full time. Here's a comparison I've always looked at. Here are 2 solid database tools: Table Plus - https://tableplus.com/ SQLite Browser - https://sqlitebrowser.org/…
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted Website analytics are breaking the law as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAbsolutely. We recommend custom domains ( https://usefathom.com/support/custom-domains ) but you could proxy through to the collector, no problem. It’s a great way of doing it
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted We Ditched DynamoDB as a story · 9 points
HN discussionWe actually looked into this: https://usefathom.com/blog/google-analytics-seo Funny as it sounds, using Fathom instead of GA could increase your SEO rankings :)
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted Someone Attacked Our Company as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThere’s a huge shift happening. People are realizing that Google Analytics isn’t “free”. You’re sending data to a company that has a huge amount of privacy scandals. We have lots of agencies who use us, and their clients may differ from yours, but here’s what’s helped them: https://usefathom.com/blog/switch
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted We rebuilt our entire application as a story · 8 points
HN discussionThanks for all the kind words about https://usefathom.com . We’ve been in business since 2018 and both founders now work full time on it. We’re fully bootstrapped, actively rejecting millions of dollars in venture capital, and we are sustainable. That is the key. We are priced fairly, and at a level that allows us to ensure the longevity of our business. We are used by governments, small businesses, multi billion do…
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on “Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics”Submitted The risk of out-of-office emails as a story · 8 points
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