Plausible Analytics
Simple, lightweight web analytics that works without cookies or personal data.
- Stars
- 29.8k
- Forks
- 1.9k
- Licence
- AGPL-3.0
- Language
- Elixir
- Updated
At a glance
- No cookies and no persistent identifiers, so no consent banner is needed
- A tracking script many times smaller than Google Analytics
- One-page dashboard that non-analysts can read
- Goals, funnels and custom event properties
Get started
git clone https://github.com/plausible/community-edition && cd community-edition && docker compose up -dWhat it is
Plausible is web analytics reduced to the questions most site owners actually ask: how many people visited, where they came from, and what they looked at. Everything fits on a single page.
It is built with Elixir and Phoenix, stores events in ClickHouse, and is offered both as a hosted service and as a self-hosted Community Edition.
Why it stands out
Plausible counts visitors without cookies or any persistent identifier, so there is nothing to ask consent for. The tracking script is tiny, which makes pages measurably lighter than with a conventional analytics tag.
Who it is for
Publishers, indie developers and companies that want trustworthy traffic numbers without a data-protection headache.
Questions
Does Plausible need a cookie banner?
No. Plausible does not set cookies or collect personal data, which is why it is commonly used without a consent banner.
