Website analytics
Simple Analytics privacy rating
Hosted web analytics from the Netherlands that counts page views and unique visits without cookies, fingerprinting or IP addresses.
Summary
Simple Analytics scores 61 out of 100 (grade C) on the website analytics criteria. It meets 5 of 11 criteria: no trackers or telemetry, no ads or data sales, TLS configuration, no cookies and no personal data. It partly meets open source. It does not meet independent audit, transparency report, tells users about requests, security headers and self-hostable. It is based in the Netherlands: Nine Eyes member; EU member (GDPR). Automated tests: SSL Labs grade A+ and Mozilla HTTP Observatory grade B-.
Score 61 out of 100. How scoring works
Criteria
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Partial
Open source Weight 3 of 3
Is all the source code needed to run the product public?
The tracking scripts are MIT, but the hosted analytics service is closed source.
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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 Simple Analytics' 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 to third parties.
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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?
No cookies, local storage, fingerprinting or IP hashing are used.
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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?
IP addresses are not collected or stored, and country is derived from the visitor's time zone.
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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 B- (65/100+)
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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.