Simple Analytics
Simple Analytics is commercial web analytics software made by Simple Analytics.
- Made by
- Simple Analytics
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- A privacy-first, cookie-free website analytics service based in the Netherlands that reports page views, referrers and events.
- Adopt it when
- An EU business wants GDPR-friendly traffic stats with no cookie banner and data kept in Europe.
- Watch out
- A small company with a basic feature set; not a replacement for product or ad attribution analytics.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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