plausible/analytics
Editor-reviewedOpen source, privacy-first web analytics. Lightweight, cookie-free Google Analytics alternative. Self-hosted or cloud.
- Stars
- 29.8k
- Forks
- 1.9k
- Language
- Elixir
- License
- AGPL-3.0
- Last commit
- updated Nov 2026
Why founders care
Covers the traffic questions most founders actually ask, and because it sets no cookies it avoids the consent-banner work that a heavier analytics stack forces on you.
Pros
- No cookie banner needed for basic traffic reporting
- Tracking script is a few kilobytes, so it does not slow pages down
- The dashboard is one page, so there is almost nothing to learn
Cons
- Self-hosting runs both PostgreSQL and ClickHouse, which is more infrastructure than a single-database app
- AGPL-3.0 licensed, which matters if you intend to modify and redistribute it
Alternatives
Umami, Matomo, Fathom Analytics
Maintenance
Pushed within three months of the last stats read (as of Nov 6, 2026).
Licence
AGPL-3.0
Tech stack
Primary language: Elixir. GitHub reports only the dominant language, so this is not the whole stack.
Install
Docker Compose, using the setup in plausible/community-edition
Quality score
Computed with the same formula the discovery import uses, so this entry can be compared with imported ones.
- Recent activity×0.30
- 1.00
How recently the default branch was pushed to.
- Adoption×0.20
- 0.95
Stars on a log scale, so adoption counts without dominating.
- Description and topics×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repo describes itself: description, topics, homepage.
- README present×0.15
- 1.00
Whether the repository has a README at all.
- Licence clarity×0.10
- 1.00
Whether GitHub can resolve the licence to a recognised SPDX id.
- Issue health×0.10
- 1.00
Open issues relative to adoption, as a rough maintenance signal.
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