Plausible
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SHOW HN2020
351points
139comments
#106of 3,028 in 2020
Top 4%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
11 positive, 34 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 16 critical, out of 64 comments about the project. Thread score -0.07.
Idea: 5 for, 5 againstExecution: 1 for, 5 againstPrivacy: 2 for, 3 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Privacy-respecting approach without cookies
From 3 comments
Plausible is a gulp of fresh air in the sea of products and services that try to sell one's identity in exchange for a free service. I have started using it for one of my sites,…
preslavrachev on HNPlausible is the best thing that has happened to us at https://hellonext.co. Such a beautiful product, and has helped us get more customers from the EU as well, since they know…
goddamnsteve on HNCorrelation will hold between unique hashes and unique visitors to access increase in unique visitors for your campaign. Even the percentage of these accesses that are returning…
gabriel34 on HN
Lightweight script
From 1 comment
Hello HN! We started developing Plausible early last year, launched our SaaS business and you can now self-host Plausible on your server too! The project is battle-tested running…
markosaric on HN
Objections
Daily salt resets prevent returning-visitor and multi-day conversion tracking
From 3 comments
This comes very close to GA alternative, it's nice and fat free. The daily salt reset is a deal breaker. (basically means people visiting the site are considered unique everyday…
bamazizi on HNthis will limit your solution from many deployments. Knowing returning visitors from first time visitors is quite important and helps to asssess if viewership, audience and…
propogandist on HNNice product but the fact you can't tell new from old customers is a non-starter for most businesses.
chrshawkes on HN
Not a full Google Analytics replacement; lacks events with metadata
From 1 comment
Plausible is not a Google Analytics alternative. Yes, it shows you traffic on pages, but it does not support some essential features, like proper events/goals with metadata.…
nicbou on HN
IP-based unique counting is inaccurate for mobile and NAT users
From 1 comment
This seems to have the same issue as Pirsch[0] in that (i) a mobile user will have multiple IPs during a day as they roam between wifi networks and mobile networks - which will…
gnabgib on HN
Requests
Browser version reporting
From 1 comment
Is there info about what pages a user viewed and the browser version? I don't see it on the demo.
benbro on HN
Returning visitor tracking
From 1 comment
this will limit your solution from many deployments. Knowing returning visitors from first time visitors is quite important and helps to asssess if viewership, audience and…
propogandist on HN
Questions
How sessions are tracked without cookies
From 2 comments
How do you track sessions without cookies? IP address?
bishalb on HNI'm really wondering how can it identify returning visitor without using cookies. Local storage?
enginaar on HN
Whether it runs on shared PHP/MySQL hosting
From 1 comment
Any way to run this on a shared hosting with PHP/MySQL? If that works out somehow I would give this a try over Matomo, which is just "too big" for my use case.
martin_a on HN
Alternatives named
Fathom
From 1 comment
At first glance the design of this feels very close to fathom, another privacy-focused analytics tool https://usefathom.com/
PStamatiou on HN
Matomo
From 2 comments
Any way to run this on a shared hosting with PHP/MySQL? If that works out somehow I would give this a try over Matomo, which is just "too big" for my use case.
martin_a on HNwe have a live demo here where you can see exactly what we offer with our own website stats: https://plausible.io/plausible.io otherwise i've published a comparison with Google…
markosaric on HN
GoAccess
From 1 comment
https://goaccess.io/ does the same analytics and does not require exposing a dedicated service
eeZah7Ux on HN
PostHog
From 1 comment
I would love to hear this compares to Posthog! I just switched from Google Analytics (by way of firebase) to Posthog, which seems very comparable. I liked Posthog because it has…
random_savv on HN
Umami
From 1 comment
+1 from a two-months user. Haven't had the time to mess around with Umami so I jumped on it. UI needs some polish, otherwise a solid alternative.
marban on HN