📈 Google Analytics alternative 🚀 Intuitive & lightweight 🛡️ Open source & privacy-first 🍪 No cookies & no need for GDPR banner ♥️ Subscriber-funded 🇪🇺 Made and hosted in the EU Visit https://plausible.io?utm_source=Bluesky&utm_medium=socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mu2ove5ikw2xEuropean companies prefer Plausible. You can host your website in Europe, choose European infrastructure and take GDPR seriously. Then load Google Analytics on every page and send your visitors’ data to Google. For companies trying to keep more of their data in EU, that increasingly doesn’t...27 Aug 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu2ove5ikw2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mtvk4fl4m22k@home-assistant.io, one of the most popular open-source projects, is using Plausible web analytics across all its websites. 😍25 Aug 2026 09:49 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtvk4fl4m22khttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mtt5vhv4no2zYou don't need a hidden business model if you can keep a simple, clear relationship with your customers. You pay for a product. We build the product for you. We don’t need to monetize the personal data of the people visiting your website, and make the economics work. A happy Plausible subscriber:24 Aug 2026 11:05 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtt5vhv4no2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mtl4s2q7qc2xPatience + trust in the process play a role here too. It took us 324 days to reach $400 MRR. Not $400k. $400. Another 9 months: $10k MRR. And 3 years after launching: $1M ARR. Today, more than 20k teams pay for Plausible. Still open-source. Still fully user-supported. [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 06:24 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtl4s2q7qc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mtgaqlycpl2dCustomers make an open-source business financially stable, not donations. We tried to fund Plausible through donations. In 6 months, we got 6 donations. $5 each. $30 total. In the same 6 months, paid subscriptions grew from $400 to $8,500 MRR. Open source needs a business model, not a tip jar.19 Aug 2026 07:51 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtgaqlycpl2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mtbk65eses2nA VC firm accidentally became our press team. We’ve received hundreds of emails from investors over the years. We’ve said no every time. Being 100% subscriber-funded means we answer to the people paying for Plausible. No investor agenda to balance against theirs. The funny part?17 Aug 2026 10:57 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtbk65eses2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3msuox5pjys2yTwo analytics companies. Two data policies. Google: “...measure the effectiveness of advertising... and personalize content and ads...” Plausible: “Your data is not used for advertising, profiling or monetization.” Privacy isn’t a setting. It starts with the business model.12 Aug 2026 08:18 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msuox5pjys2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mspqqsjgtt2cSchrems I ended Safe Harbour in 2015. Schrems II ended Privacy Shield in 2020. noyb is preparing what could become Schrems III against the EU-US Data Privacy Framework & asked the Commission to withdraw it. GA uses it for EU-US transfers. Plausible keeps visitor data in the EU on EU-owned infra.10 Aug 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mspqqsjgtt2chttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3msamy4kd5s2xOne July number we left out: 4,248 trial signups, our third-best month ever. That’s the final point on the chart. The chart isn't a mockup. It's our real, public dashboard. You can follow the August numbers live here: plausible.io/plausible.io [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 Aug 2026 08:49 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3msamy4kd5s2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3ms6bbcg4fj2gWhile indie hacker Twitter debated whether SaaS is dying, our July: • $22.2k in new MRR, our best month ever • MRR up 28.5% year over year • 20,183 paying subscribers AI may have made products easy to clone. Ours has been open source and free to clone since 2019. The code was never the moat.03 Aug 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3ms6bbcg4fj2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mrwlit46ny2u"The cost of analytics is not the cost of your analytics subscription: it's the engineering time and cognitive overhead you put on yourself." People often compare analytics tools by monthly price. But that's rarely the expensive part. There is also an underrated cost: engineering time.31 Jul 2026 08:56 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrwlit46ny2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mru7ksy3zd2yIt's always nice when someone describes your product exactly the way you hoped they'd experience it. 🤍30 Jul 2026 10:17 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mru7ksy3zd2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mrroh2ka7w2y20,000+ teams now pay for Plausible! 🎉 That's 20,000 teams who looked at the free option and decided their visitors' privacy mattered more. We're grateful to everyone who's chosen Plausible. Thank you. 🙏29 Jul 2026 10:05 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrroh2ka7w2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mrml34rcs62gYou can track ad performance without tracking people. Click a Google or Microsoft ad and the landing URL includes: `?gclid=...` `?msclkid=...` Those are unique click identifiers. Useful for attribution, but they create GDPR concerns when collected without consent. How Plausible handles this?27 Jul 2026 09:22 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrml34rcs62ghttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mrcm6r3ncy2cThe best privacy feature is knowing there isn't a catch. You shouldn't need to dig through settings to see what's being collected. Or read fine print to understand what happens to visitor data. Privacy-friendly analytics should be simple enough to explain: • No cookies23 Jul 2026 10:15 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mrcm6r3ncy2chttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mr7u5nnkid2hPlausible dashboards are private by default. But if you want to be transparent, you can make your stats public with a toggle. Great for open startups, indie projects, public communities, and anyone who wants to share what’s happening. Private by default. Public when you choose.22 Jul 2026 08:00 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr7u5nnkid2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mr35d277ni2iOur landing pages look just like our blog posts. Text-first. No fancy layouts. No animations. Yet, they work the way we want them to. Helpful messaging beats trendy design when people actually need what you offer. If they don't get it from reading, scrolling through animations won't help either.20 Jul 2026 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mr35d277ni2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mqtebx6twk2bMost people treat low scroll depth like a failure signal. It's not. It depends on what the page is meant to do. Long blog post with low scroll depth and low time on page? Your intro probably doesn't match the headline. Blog index with low scroll depth + low time on page?17 Jul 2026 08:44 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqtebx6twk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mqoj22oprt2bIf nobody on your team checks analytics without being reminded, the tool is the problem. The best analytics tool is the one you actually understand and keep using. That’s the bar we care about.15 Jul 2026 10:26 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqoj22oprt2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mqlzhgiyir2oYou can now add little notes to your traffic chart! 📝 Spike on a specific date? At a specific time? Or a drop somewhere? Just add a quick note so you remember why it happened. Mark product launches, campaigns, SEO changes, incidents, etc., directly on the chart. ✅ Available with all plans14 Jul 2026 10:41 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqlzhgiyir2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mqjks3m2aa2yYour analytics might be logging personal data without you realizing it. Query parameters in URLs can accidentally contain search terms, session IDs, or email addresses. Most analytics tools collect everything by default. Plausible strips them automatically.13 Jul 2026 11:14 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqjks3m2aa2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mqbi54u5i52uMost "EU-hosted" tools aren't EU companies. A tool can store data in Frankfurt while being run by a US company, using US infrastructure, with EU hosting as an optional add-on. "Where is the data hosted?" is just one question. Also ask:10 Jul 2026 06:05 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mqbi54u5i52uhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mq4uzrtytr22Fourth record-breaking month in a row. June delivered our highest new MRR and most paying subscribers ever. Zero spent on ads. Zero paid to affiliates. Zero shortcuts taken. This is what happens when you just keep building.08 Jul 2026 10:12 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq4uzrtytr22https://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mq2f7ukjnl2yLocation reports just got better. Now you can see bounce rate and visit duration for each country, region, and city. Not just where your traffic comes from, but how engaged those visitors actually are.07 Jul 2026 10:24 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mq2f7ukjnl2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mpnsjt2dmo2pMost traffic visiting your website is not human. If your analytics counts everything, you don’t know what’s real. Clean data matters more than big data.02 Jul 2026 10:18 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpnsjt2dmo2phttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mpl64ljuxx2jA bunch of referral sources that used to show up as plain text now have proper icons. Small change, but it makes your traffic sources list much easier to scan. ✨01 Jul 2026 09:07 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpl64ljuxx2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mpiwjzke2t2pMost SaaS companies hide their limitations. We just made a page listing ours. It's not anti-marketing, it's clarity. Plausible is built for a specific customer and there are some things that we'd never do: - Individual user tracking - Session recordings - Retargeting etc.30 Jun 2026 11:46 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpiwjzke2t2phttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mpgcqnosqm2hOne of the questions we ask before building anything: "Does this help people understand their website?" If the answer is instead: • watch people • profile people • retarget people • collect invasive data ...it's probably not something we'll build.29 Jun 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mpgcqnosqm2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mp4bitpjqc2yGoogle Gemini traffic ≠ Google Search traffic. Mixing them inflates your organic numbers and hides how AI is actually finding you. In Plausible, they're tracked separately: • Gemini → AI Assistants • Google Search → Organic Search Your reports stay accurate. No guessing.25 Jun 2026 10:58 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mp4bitpjqc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/plausible.io/post/3mozjqurjnb2eSubdomains are now visible in the Pages report. If you're tracking blog.yoursite, app.yoursite, etc., you can now break them down by URL and see exactly where visitors are landing. One script. One dashboard. Unified sessions across main domain and subdomains. ✓ Working on your existing data.24 Jun 2026 08:47 +0000at://did:plc:tr55nhbtplkogcei6ehvj7b2/app.bsky.feed.post/3mozjqurjnb2e