Plausible Analytics

Most-linked posts?

1. Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner
   61 people · 65 mentions · first linked 2019-10-09
2. Plausible: Simple and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics
   29 people · 32 mentions · first linked 2020-04-06
3. /data-policy
   11 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2020-05-14
4. Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative
   9 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2020-10-06
5. /plausible.io
   8 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2020-04-08
6. /docs/proxy/introduction
   7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-07-10
7. /privacy-focused-web-analytics
   6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-10-23
8. How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS
   6 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2022-06-22
9. Why we’re changing to the AGPL license
   5 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2020-10-13
10. How to pay your rent with your open source project
    4 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-06-18

What Hacker News says?

1. markosaric · 2020-12-17

   you can see the exact method on our data policy: https://plausible.io/data-policy

   Comment linking /data-policy

   on “No Cookie for You”
2. robin_reala · 2021-08-31

   Submitted Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics as a story · 1214 points

   HN discussion
3. abdullahkhalids · 2020-12-17

   > How can Plausible Analytics count unique visitors without cookies? > So if you don’t use cookies how do you count the number of website visitors and report on metrics such as the number of unique users? > Instead of tagging users with cookies, we count the number of unique IP addresses that accessed your website. Counting IP addresses is an old-school method that was used before the modern age of JavaScript snippe…

   Comment linking /blog/google-analytics-cookies

   on “No Cookie for You”
4. ColinWright · 2021-05-18

   Submitted AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search as a story · 719 points

   HN discussion
5. geek_at · 2020-12-17

   True. Also even if you do track your visitors you can use privacy friendly (and ideally selfhostable) Analytics like Plausible https://plausible.io/ so you won't need the banners either. Just don't include facebook like buttons or any of these widgets

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   on “No Cookie for You”
6. caust1c · 2022-06-24

   Submitted How We built a $1M ARR open source SaaS as a story · 522 points

   HN discussion
7. input_sh · 2020-08-11

   > And when I go to download the browser prompt me to either pay the suggested donation or manually change it to $0. FYI elementary OS does that and they have public analytics where you can see how many people skip it: https://plausible.io/elementary.io Their "payment skipped" goal has 57.9k conversions, while "payment complete" has 1k conversions. This is <2 months of data, since they've started using Plausible pret…

   Comment linking /elementary.io

   on “Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products”
8. themeaningist · 2025-03-24

   Submitted Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site. What trends are we seeing? as a story · 493 points

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9. markosaric · 2020-05-14

   Thank you! Here's how we've done it. There's no legal precedent but we believe this makes us compliant: To enhance the visitor privacy, we don’t actually store the raw visitor IP address in our database or logs. We run it through a one-way hash function to scramble the raw IP addresses and make them impossible to recover. To further enhance privacy, we add the website domain to the IP hash. We also add the User-Agen…

   Comment linking /data-policy

   on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”
10. markosaric · 2020-04-08

    Submitted An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website as a story · 462 points

    HN discussion
11. markosaric · 2020-05-14

    I'm working on Plausible Analytics: https://plausible.io It's an open source, simple (all metrics on one page), lightweight (1.4 KB), no cookies (no need for cookie banner) and no private data collected (no need for GDPR consent) alternative to Google Analytics. The code is on GitHub https://github.com/plausible-insights/plausible/

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?”
12. markosaric · 2020-10-06

    Submitted Show HN: Plausible – Self-Hosted Google Analytics alternative as a story · 351 points

    HN discussion
13. yoble · 2021-08-31

    Their open analytics page shows the live HN traffic to their website, driven by this article - quite a peak from regular: https://plausible.io/plausible.io

    Comment linking /plausible.io

    on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”
14. markosaric · 2020-07-27

    Submitted How to pay your rent with your open source project as a story · 342 points

    HN discussion
15. busterarm · 2021-08-31

    https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-alternatives

    Comment linking /blog/google-analytics-alternatives

    on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”
16. gregnavis · 2022-08-24

    Submitted How to pay your rent with your open source project (2020) as a story · 321 points

    HN discussion
17. timdaub · 2021-08-31

    Nice that Marko did a follow up by writing this blog post. A few months ago (in May), I also asked myself the question of "How plausible are our web analytics?", and I was able to see the same phenomenon [1]. Many people in my audience block client-side web trackers. One option would now be to host a plausible proxy on-premise. But I didn't have time to try that out yet. PS: We're paying plausible customers and our…

    Comment linking /rugpullindex.com

    on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”
18. markosaric · 2020-10-13

    Submitted Why we’re changing to the AGPL license as a story · 286 points

    HN discussion
19. themacguffinman · 2021-08-31

    Worth noting that if you're already willing to setup a first-party proxy like Plausible does in this comparison, you can do the same thing with Google Analytics using either the NYPL project [1] or send whatever you want to the Google Measurement Protocol API [2]. You can usually send whatever you want through a first-party proxy in basically any competent analytics product. Analytics is not ads. I find it this comp…

    Comment linking /docs/proxy/introduction

    on “Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics”
20. tacon · 2021-11-05

    Submitted We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics alternative to $500k ARR as a story · 206 points

    HN discussion
21. ukutaht · 2022-02-10

    Clickhouse has got a lot better in limited memory environments. They now recommend 4GB minimum. The production environment that crashed due to Clickhouse OOM was our hosted product a while ago :) After that, we haven't had any downtime on our Clickhouse DB for over a year. The issue with disk space stems from a bad default configuration. Clickhouse used to have EXTREMELY noisy debug level logging enabled by default…

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    on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”
22. markosaric · 2020-12-17

    Submitted Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS as a story · 173 points

    HN discussion
23. calyhre · 2022-02-10

    I've been using [Plausible]( https://plausible.io ) in its self-hosted version for about a month, on a 7M+ page views per month. So far so good

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    on “Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority”
24. rajeshrajappan · 2021-04-16

    Submitted How to fight back against Google FLoC as a story · 158 points

    HN discussion
25. akie · 2022-02-03

    What you can do is the following: 0. Use Firefox, not Chrome 1. Install an ad-blocker ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin... ) 2. Install ghostery ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ghostery/ ) 3. Install Cookie Auto-Delete ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autode... ) 4. Use Google Container ( https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-contai…

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    on “Google to turn on activity tracking for many users who turned it off”
26. bugfactory · 2024-07-08

    Submitted Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner as a story · 145 points

    HN discussion
27. maxwell · 2021-08-13

    I was referring to https://plausible.io/blog/google-amp Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27192685

    Comment linking /blog/google-amp

    on “FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website”
28. saeedesmaili · 2024-07-10

    Submitted Plausible Community Edition as a story · 125 points

    HN discussion
29. malisper · 2020-08-18

    Both Fathom and plausible generate a unique salt every day. By getting rid of the old salts, they've anonymized any data older than a day. From [0]: > We do not attempt to generate a device-persistent identifier because they are considered personal data under GDPR. > Instead, we generate a daily changing identifier using the visitor’s IP address and User Agent. To anonymize these datapoints, we run them through a ha…

    Comment linking /data-policy

    on “Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics”
30. AlchemistCamp · 2019-07-08

    Submitted You probably don't need a single page app as a story · 31 points

    HN discussion

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