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2026 18

  1. Google Analytics pricing: Free GA4 and paid GA360 explained
  2. Shopify, Squarespace and Webflow analytics: What you can track and what’s missing
  3. What is direct traffic? What does it include, and why is its share the highest?
  4. Web analytics: what it is, how it works and how to use it
  5. Web analytics vs product analytics: core difference and how to choose?
  6. How to check your own website traffic accurately
  7. EU-hosted analytics isn’t the same as EU-owned analytics
  8. Do ad blockers block Plausible Analytics?
  9. What is PII? Meaning and examples of personal data you shouldn’t send to analytics
  10. How to investigate a spike in your website traffic?
  11. Website Journey Analytics: How to track user journeys on your website
  12. How simplifying our homepage helped increase trial signups by 84%
  13. The boring way to build a startup
  14. How to manage Plausible Analytics across multiple client sites with Google Tag Manager
  15. Attribution Modeling: What it is and How to do it with Plausible Analytics
  16. Handpicked list of privacy-focused European alternatives to big tech products for B2B [Updated]
  17. What are backlinks in SEO and how to get them?
  18. Why we say no to investors and are 100% user-supported?

2025 12

  1. Consent Mode and how GA4 fills missing data with behavioral modeling and modeled conversions
  2. Why analytics tools never show the same numbers?
  3. ChatGPT traffic is down, but Engagement is up!
  4. How to A/B test your website?
  5. Google Analytics counts bots as real traffic
  6. Shopify Analytics: Understanding reports, dashboards & alternatives
  7. GA4 could be underreporting average engagement time by up to 80%, as compared to Plausible
  8. Millions are visiting the European Alternatives site––what trends are we seeing?
  9. What is scroll depth and how to track it automatically?
  10. How to investigate a drop in your website traffic?
  11. Is SEO dead? How to stay discoverable in the age of AI, zero clicks, and multichannel discovery?
  12. How to use Google's Data Studio to create custom analytics reports

2024 22

  1. How to pick the right metrics for your website?
  2. Breaking down our 2.2K% surge in AI traffic with Plausible Analytics (+how to AI-optimize)
  3. Everything that’s complicated to do in Google Analytics than Plausible
  4. Tracking Google Ads and other paid campaigns with Plausible
  5. What is a good bounce rate for a website? (and industry benchmarks)
  6. How to analyze top landing pages and exit pages on your website?
  7. What are WordPress categories, how many is ideal, how to add them, and more.
  8. 11 handpicked WordPress search plugins for building the best site search
  9. WooCommerce analytics plugin: One-click setup for tracking sales, funnel, marketing, and more.
  10. Do you need a cookie consent banner? A practical privacy-first guide
  11. How to track conversion attribution across your domain and subdomains?
  12. How to check if Google Analytics (or any analytics tool) is working correctly?
  13. 4 things I hate about GA4
  14. When a web analytics tool crosses the fine line to becoming a marketing tool
  15. Using website analytics for ecommerce revenue attribution and boosting sales
  16. What are custom dimensions in Google Analytics and how to use them?
  17. How to track file downloads on your website using analytics tools?
  18. What's a marketing funnel and how to use it to optimize your website conversions
  19. Optimizing paid ad campaigns with cookieless tracking in a post-third-party cookie world
  20. Did Google phase out third-party cookies? What happened in Chrome
  21. GDPR-compliant web analytics without consent: a legal guide to cookieless tracking
  22. Introducing Plausible Community Edition

2023 3

  1. Is Google Analytics illegal? Several European Data Protection Authorities say so
  2. Continue reading ->
  3. Key differences between UA and GA4: A guide to a smooth migration

2022 1

  1. How we built a $1M ARR open source SaaS

2021 8

  1. Continue reading ->
  2. 58% of Hacker News, Reddit and tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics
  3. How we scaled support for 4,000+ subscribers and 1,000+ monthly trials (without dedicated support personnel)
  4. Google AMP is dead! AMP pages no longer get preferential treatment in Google search
  5. Core Web Vitals and how to improve the page experience
  6. How to fight back against Google FLoC
  7. Best web analytics plugins for WordPress sites
  8. What we learned on our journey to $10,000 MRR

2020 33

  1. Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
  2. How to find 404 error pages on your website using web analytics
  3. How to track outbound link clicks using your website analytics
  4. Do I need a privacy policy for my website?
  5. Building Plausible: October 2020 recap
  6. Open source licensing and why we're changing Plausible to the AGPL license
  7. Building Plausible: September 2020 recap
  8. How to use UTM parameters to track your campaigns and understand dark traffic
  9. How to get Safari's Privacy Report stamp of approval for your website
  10. 15 best startup marketing practices we say "no" to (while growing our MRR by 1000% in 6 months)
  11. Building Plausible: August 2020 recap
  12. How not to launch on Product Hunt (and lessons from our successful launch)
  13. How we use web analytics to measure our startup's progress and make better decisions
  14. Building Plausible: July 2020 recap
  15. How Chrome's default referrer policy affects your site analytics
  16. How we grew our startup from $400 to $2,750 MRR in 135 days without ads
  17. Web analytics, CCPA and is Google Analytics compliant with CCPA?
  18. Made in the EU, hosted in Germany and running on 100% renewable energy
  19. Building Plausible: June 2020 recap
  20. Client side vs server side analytics: What's the gap in data?
  21. How to pay your rent with your open source project
  22. Plausible Analytics Self-Hosted Beta: Looking for beta testers
  23. Plausible Analytics story on the Changelog podcast
  24. Building Plausible: May 2020 recap
  25. Does Google Analytics use cookies? What the consent banner requires
  26. Building Plausible: April 2020 recap
  27. Will removing Google Analytics from a site hurt search engine rankings?
  28. 60 Best Google Analytics alternatives: The Complete List
  29. How one blog post changed the traction for my startup
  30. Why you should stop using Google Analytics on your website
  31. Building Plausible: March 2020 recap
  32. Building Plausible: February 2020 recap
  33. Building Plausible: January 2020 recap

2019 11

  1. Google Analytics & Privacy: Why it matters
  2. Plausible is going open source
  3. Plain emails are a win-win
  4. Building Plausible: June 2019 recap
  5. Replacing Google products with more ethical alternatives
  6. I'm launching Plausible
  7. Founders: Don't hide behind a 'we'
  8. You probably don't need a single-page application
  9. How to store 'last seen' for users in Phoenix
  10. Technology choices
  11. Learning design as a developer

2018 1

  1. The analytics tool I want