Website analytics
Plausible Analytics privacy rating
Lightweight web analytics that counts visits without cookies and shows aggregate stats on a single dashboard. Available as a hosted service or as the self-hosted Community Edition.
Summary
Plausible Analytics scores 73 out of 100 (grade C) on the website analytics criteria. It meets 7 of 11 criteria: open source, no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, TLS configuration, no cookies, no personal data and self-hostable. It does not meet independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests and security headers. It is based in Estonia: Not in the Five, Nine or Fourteen Eyes; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade D.
Score 73 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Yes
Open source Weight 3 of 3 Source-available
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
All code is public. The Community Edition is AGPL-3.0, and code for hosted-only features in the extra directory of the same repository is published under a source-available proprietary notice.
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Yes
No trackers or telemetry Weight 3 of 3
Are the website and apps free of third-party trackers, with any analytics anonymous and any telemetry off by default?
No third-party trackers. The website uses Plausible's own analytics, which are cookieless and aggregate-only.
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Yes
No ads or data sales Weight 2 of 3
Is the product funded without advertising, ad targeting or selling user data?
Funded by subscriptions. The privacy policy states data is never sold or used for advertising.
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No
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
No independent audit is published.
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No
Transparency report Weight 2 of 3
Does the provider regularly publish how many government and legal requests it receives and how it responds?
No transparency report or government request policy is published.
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No
Tells users about requests Weight 1 of 3
Does the provider promise to tell users about requests for their data, unless a court forbids it?
No published policy on notifying users about data requests.
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Yes
No cookies Weight 2 of 3
Does it count visitors without cookies or other identifiers stored on the device?
The script sets no cookies and generates no persistent visitor identifiers.
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Yes
No personal data Weight 3 of 3
Does it avoid storing IP addresses and personal data, and never share data with advertisers?
Raw IP addresses and User-Agent strings are not stored, and a daily visitor hash is used instead.
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Yes
Self-hostable Weight 1 of 3
Can the analytics be self-hosted?
The Community Edition is officially offered for self-hosting.
Automated tests
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Yes
TLS configuration Weight 2 of 3
Does the website pass the Qualys SSL Labs test with a grade of A or better?
Grade A
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No
Security headers Weight 1 of 3
Does the website pass the Mozilla HTTP Observatory test with a grade of A or better?
Grade D (30/100+)
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Not tested yet
Modern web standards Weight 1 of 3
Does the website score 90% or higher on the Internet.nl website test?
Not tested yet.