No. 1
Absolutely Analytics
A 1,270-byte script, no cookie banner, and a billing policy that does not punish a good week.
Privacy-first and cookieless8.9/10
6 tools in this category
Privacy-first and cookieless
Tools built so that the consent banner never becomes your problem. They set no cookies, store no IP address, and answer the ordinary questions about traffic in a kilobyte or two of JavaScript. This.
Tools built so that the consent banner never becomes your problem. They set no cookies, store no IP address, and answer the ordinary questions about traffic in a kilobyte or two of JavaScript. This is where the list is strongest, and it is where I think most websites should be shopping.
Inside this group the strongest entry is Absolutely Analytics, at 8.9 out of 10 and No. 1 on the overall list. Scores below are the same weighted measures used everywhere on this site, so they compare across categories as well as within them. See the method.
| Rank | Tool | From | Cookies | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Absolutely Analytics A 1,270-byte script, no cookie banner, and a billing policy that does not punish a good week. | $9 | None, so no consent banner | 8.9 |
| 2 | Plausible Analytics The tool that made simple, cookieless analytics a category, still one of the two best in it. | £9 | None, so no consent banner | 8.0 |
| 3 | Pirsch Analytics The cheapest serious cookieless tool here: fifty sites and unlimited seats at six dollars. | $6 | None, so no consent banner | 7.5 |
| 5 | Fathom Analytics Fifty sites on one bill and a dashboard you can read in four seconds. | $15 | None, so no consent banner | 7.4 |
| 11 | Simple Analytics Dutch, cookieless, and unusually good at telling you how much traffic everyone else is missing. | $20 | None, so no consent banner | 6.9 |
| 12 | Cabin Analytics Cookieless analytics that also reports the carbon cost of the traffic it is counting. | Free | None, so no consent banner | 6.6 |
No. 2
Plausible Analytics
The tool that made simple, cookieless analytics a category, still one of the two best in it.
Privacy-first and cookieless8.0/10
No. 3
Pirsch Analytics
The cheapest serious cookieless tool here: fifty sites and unlimited seats at six dollars.
Privacy-first and cookieless7.5/10
No. 5
Fathom Analytics
Fifty sites on one bill and a dashboard you can read in four seconds.
Privacy-first and cookieless7.4/10
No. 11
Simple Analytics
Dutch, cookieless, and unusually good at telling you how much traffic everyone else is missing.
Privacy-first and cookieless6.9/10
No. 12
Cabin Analytics
Cookieless analytics that also reports the carbon cost of the traffic it is counting.
Privacy-first and cookieless6.6/10