Website analytics
PostHog privacy rating
Product analytics platform with web analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments and surveys. Offered as PostHog Cloud or as an unsupported self-hosted deployment.
Summary
PostHog scores 48 out of 100 (grade D) on the website analytics criteria. It meets 4 of 11 criteria: open source, no ads or data sales, independent audit and TLS configuration. It partly meets no cookies and self-hostable. It does not meet no trackers or telemetry, transparency report, tells users about requests, security headers and no personal data. It is based in the United States: Five Eyes member; subject to the US CLOUD Act. Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade C.
Score 48 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. Most is MIT, and the ee directory in the same repository uses a source-available proprietary license.
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No
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?
The privacy policy describes marketing cookies and sharing account information with third-party advertising platforms such as LinkedIn.
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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 usage-based subscriptions. The privacy policy states customer data is not sold.
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Yes
Independent audit Weight 2 of 3
Has an independent security or privacy audit been published within the last three years?
The full SOC 2 Type 2 report from an independent service auditor is public.
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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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Partial
No cookies Weight 2 of 3
Does it count visitors without cookies or other identifiers stored on the device?
The script sets a first-party cookie and localStorage by default, and a cookieless mode can be turned on.
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No
No personal data Weight 3 of 3
Does it avoid storing IP addresses and personal data, and never share data with advertisers?
Client IP addresses are captured by default, except for EU organizations, and can be discarded in settings.
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Partial
Self-hostable Weight 1 of 3
Can the analytics be self-hosted?
Self-hosting with Docker is possible but officially unsupported.
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 C (50/100+)
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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.