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Simple Analytics vs Umami - Comparison 2025

Simple Analytics vs. Umami

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Reviewed by Camin McCluskey

Stackfix Co-Founder & CTO

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In comparing these privacy-focused analytics tools, Umami emerges as the more well-rounded solution with its superior user interface, cohort analysis capabilities, and journey mapping features. Simple Analytics stands out for its automatic event tracking and mobile SDK support.

Umami is better suited for small businesses and startups needing an easy-to-use tool with both web and product analytics capabilities, while Simple Analytics is more appropriate for teams prioritizing automatic event capture and mobile app tracking. Both tools offer basic web analytics functionality, but Umami's better design and additional analysis features make it the more compelling choice for most users.

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Advantages of Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics is significantly better at automatic event capture than Umami
While Umami requires manual setup for all events, Simple Analytics provides native auto-capture for common interactions like outbound link clicks, email interactions, and file downloads. This is particularly valuable for teams wanting quick insights without extensive development work.
Simple Analytics offers mobile SDK integration while Umami does not
Unlike Umami, Simple Analytics provides a mobile SDK, making it a better choice for businesses needing to track mobile app analytics alongside their web analytics.
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Advantages of Umami

Umami is substantially better designed and more visually appealing than Simple Analytics
Umami offers a clean, modern interface with snappy load times under 1 second, while Simple Analytics suffers from load delays up to 4 seconds. This makes Umami more pleasant for teams needing to frequently check analytics.
Umami offers better user journey analysis capabilities than Simple Analytics
Unlike Simple Analytics, Umami provides both user journey mapping and cohort analysis features, which are typically only found in more advanced analytics tools. This makes it more valuable for teams needing deeper user behavior insights.
Umami provides better ease of use than Simple Analytics
Umami's limited feature set and beautiful design makes it particularly easy to master within 20 minutes, making it ideal for non-technical team members.

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

Umami is best for

  • Businesses with basic analytics needs seeking a clean, simple hybrid web/product analytics solution
  • Who need basic product analytics capabilities like cohort analysis and user journey mapping
  • And/or who need a tool that's quick to implement with minimal setup complexity

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

Umami is less good for

  • Businesses with complex product analytics needs requiring automatic event capture and advanced behavioral tracking
  • Who need extensive data warehouse integrations and third-party tool connectivity
  • And/or who need enterprise-grade security certifications and persistent cross-session user tracking

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Stackfix Verdict
Functionality
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>
5

Functionality

5/10

<p>As simple web analytics tools go, we were pleasantly surprised by Umami's range of functionality. Not only does it offer the fundamentals of web analytics - page views, referral source tracking and visitor segmentation data - but it also offers some product analytics too such as cohort retention data and user journey mapping.</p>
Ease of Use
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>
8

Ease of Use

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Given its limited feature set and beautiful design, Umami is particularly easy to use. It would take an average SMB employee less than 20 minutes to master its use.</span></p>
Look and feel
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>
8

Look and feel

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami 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 (&lt;1s).</span></p>
Customisability
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>
4

Customisability

4/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Beyond custom events and some product analytics report creation, Umami offers limited scope for customization. We would like to have seen more options to tweak the main dashboard itself and change how data is visualized.</span></p>
Ease of Setup
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>
7

Ease of Setup

7/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Like most web analytics products, Umami 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.</span></p>
Customer Support
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>
6

Customer Support

6/10

<p>Umami offers fairly robust developer documentation that is simple and easy to digest. We appreciate the clarity of its layout. However, we would have appreciated better documentation search being implemented.</p>
Integratability
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>
3

Integratability

3/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami offers a fairly robust API through which you can interact with data programatically. However, it offers little to no integrations beyond this.</span></p>
Ease of Migration
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>
6

Ease of Migration

6/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Umami 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>
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