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Plausible vs. Simple Analytics

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Reviewed by Camin McCluskey

Stackfix Co-Founder & CTO

In comparing these EU-based Google Analytics alternatives, Plausible emerges as the more polished option with its modern interface and superior documentation, while Simple Analytics offers better automatic event tracking. Plausible is better suited to teams prioritizing user experience and development documentation, with its clean interface and quick page loads.

Simple Analytics, meanwhile, better serves users wanting immediate insights without manual configuration, thanks to its native auto-capture capabilities. Both tools are lightweight web analytics solutions, lacking advanced features like heatmaps or session replays, making them most appropriate for small businesses seeking basic website analytics.

Advantages of Plausible

Plausible is significantly more polished and modern-looking than Simple Analytics

Plausible offers a clean, modern interface with snappy page loads under 1 second, compared to Simple Analytics' slower 4-second load times. This makes a real difference for teams needing to quickly access and analyze their analytics data throughout the day.

Plausible offers superior developer documentation compared to Simple Analytics

While Simple Analytics lacks even basic documentation search functionality, Plausible provides well-organized, searchable developer documentation that's easy to digest. This is particularly valuable for development teams implementing analytics across multiple projects.

Advantages of Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics offers better automatic event capture than Plausible

Unlike Plausible which lacks automatic event capture, Simple Analytics provides native auto-capture for outbound links, email interactions, and file downloads without requiring manual setup. This is particularly valuable for teams wanting quick insights without extensive configuration.

Plausible is best for

Businesses with privacy concerns seeking a lightweight, EU-based alternative to Google Analytics
Who need essential web metrics like pageviews, traffic sources and basic visitor segmentation
And/or who need GDPR-compliant analytics with the option for self-hosting

Simple Analytics is best for

Businesses with basic web analytics needs who prioritize simplicity over advanced features
Who need quick setup and intuitive dashboards for tracking core metrics like pageviews and referrals
And/or who need GDPR-compliant analytics with robust data export capabilities

Plausible is less good for

Businesses with complex product analytics requirements needing heatmaps, session replays, or advanced user behavior tracking
Who need extensive dashboard customization and reporting flexibility for different stakeholders
And/or who need advanced data warehouse integrations and extensive third-party tool connectivity

Simple Analytics is less good for

Businesses with complex analytics requirements needing advanced features like heatmaps, session replays, or user journey mapping
Who need extensive dashboard customization and reporting flexibility
And/or who need robust data warehouse integrations and third-party tool connectivity

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Functionality	3 Functionality 3/10 <p>Plausible is a lightweight web analytics tool. It covers all the essentials for this time of product including real time page view and visitor data, referral source tracking and basic traffic segmentation. However, you'll not find any powerful product analytics functionality like heatmaps or session recordings.</p>	3 Functionality 3/10 <p>Simple Analytics is a very lightweight web analytics product. As such it lacks many complex features you might want such as heatmaps or session replay. However, it does the basics well - page views, live visitor counts, referral source tracking etc.</p>
Ease of Use	8 Ease of Use 8/10 <p>Given its limited feature set and beautiful design, Plausible is particularly easy to use. It would take an average SMB employee less than 20 minutes to master its use.</p>	7 Ease of Use 7/10 <p>Thanks to its relatively limited feature set - nearly all of Simple Analytics' features are accessible on one main dashboard. As such it would take an average SMB employee less than 20 mins to master its use.</p>
Look and feel	8 Look and feel 8/10 <p>Plausible is a very well design analytics tool. Its aesthetic is clean and modern. Additionally, when tested we found page load time to be snappy and responsive (<1s).</p>	5 Look and feel 5/10 <p>Simple Analytics' design aesthetic is dark and fairly developer oriented. That being said, its core dashboard will feel very familiar and its data visualizations and graphs are easy to read. Our main complaint is that we faced delays on page load of up to 4 seconds in some instances.</p>
Customisability	3 Customisability 3/10 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beyond custom events, Plausible offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</span></p>	4 Customisability 4/10 <p>Beyond custom events, Simple Analytics offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</p>
Ease of Setup	7 Ease of Setup 7/10 <p>Like most web analytics products, Plausible was also very simple to implement - requiring only a simple script. Additionally, it offers a self-serve free trial. Given the lack of complex functionality, there's little to set up in terms of additional customization either.</p>	7 Ease of Setup 7/10 <p>Simple Analytics stays true to its name as it offers a very intuitive setup process - only requiring a simple script. We appreciated the offer of a self-serve free trial as well as a live demo to get a feel for the tool before installation.</p>
Customer Support	7 Customer Support 7/10 <p>Plausibles developer documentation is well laid out, easy to digest and detailed. It also offers very strong search functionality too.</p>	3 Customer Support 3/10 <p>Simple Analytics' developer documentation is not well presented. We specifically missed the presence of any kind of search bar at all meaning you'll need to trudge through dozens of pages if you're looking for something specific.</p>
Integratability	3 Integratability 3/10 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plausible offers a fairly robust API through which you can interact with data programatically. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</span></p>	3 Integratability 3/10 <p>Simple Analytics offers a fairly robust API through which you can interact with data as well as make platform changes. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</p>
Ease of Migration	6 Ease of Migration 6/10 <p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Plausible offers self-serve export functionality for key datapoints via its web app. Additionally, its API is robust and allows business to access datapoints programatically.</span></p>	7 Ease of Migration 7/10 <p>Simple Analytics offers self-serve export functionality for key datapoints via its web app. Additionally, its API is robust and allows business to access datapoints programatically.</p>

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