Changelog Interviews Changelog Interviews #396

De-Google-ing your website analytics

Plausible creators Uku Täht and Marko Saric join the show to talk about their open source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. We talk through the backstory of the project, why it’s open source, the details behind a few viral blog posts Marko shared to bring in a ton of new interest to the project, why privacy matters in web analytics, how they prioritize building new features, the technical details behind their no cookie light-weight JavaScript approach, and their thoughts on a server-side option.


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5yr ago

Interesting show, I’ll check out Plausible. I was just on Google Pagespeed Insights the other day wondering why they were dinging me for using THEIR OWN PRODUCTS (analytics and tag manager). But it’s good because I didn’t realize how big those payloads were, got me wondering if there are alternatives, and there are!

Jerod Santo

Jerod Santo

Bennington, Nebraska

Jerod hosts Changelog News, co-hosts The Changelog & takes out the trash (his old code) once in awhile.

5yr ago

That’s amazing. You know you are BigTech when one of your product teams is calling out your other product teams! 😆

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