GhostlyX
A tiny, cookie-free analytics script that tells you how many people visited your site without needing a cookie banner or touching anyone's personal data.
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Description
Most website analytics tools (like Google Analytics) work by dropping a tracking cookie in visitors' browsers and following them around, which is why so many sites now nag you with a cookie-consent popup. GhostlyX skips that entirely — it counts visits and basic behavior without cookies or personal identifiers, so there's nothing to ask permission for and nothing that qualifies as tracking under privacy law.
GhostlyX is a lightweight (under 2kB) web analytics script that's GDPR-compliant by design, requiring no cookie-consent banner because it collects no personally identifiable information. Setup takes under two minutes — drop in a script tag and get pageview, referrer, and basic behavior data in a dashboard. It's positioned as a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics for developers and marketers who want usage numbers without the compliance overhead or the performance hit of GA's heavier script.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you want basic traffic numbers without the cookie-banner headache or Google Analytics bloat, GhostlyX is a fast, cheap, GDPR-friendly option — but you're trading away GA's depth of behavioral and conversion data.
GhostlyX competes in a now-crowded privacy-analytics space against Plausible, Fathom, and Simple Analytics — all chasing the same "GDPR-compliant, no cookie banner" pitch. Its differentiators are size (under 2kB, noticeably lighter than most rivals) and price: the free tier covers 10k pageviews/month, enough for a small blog or side project, and the paid tiers ($9-$69/month) scale reasonably with traffic. What you give up versus Google Analytics is the deep funnel/conversion tooling and audience-overlap data larger marketing teams rely on — GhostlyX is built for "how many people came, from where," not granular behavioral segmentation. Good fit for indie developers and small sites; less convincing for teams already leaning on GA4's ecosystem (Google Ads integration, BigQuery export).
💰 Pricing
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🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit jusqu'à 10k pages vues/mois ; Pro 9$/mois (100k) ; Business 29$/mois (500k) ; Scale 69$/mois (2M). 2 mois offerts en facturation annuelle.
Pros
Script ultra léger (moins de 2 kB), quasi aucun impact sur la vitesse de page
Aucune bannière de consentement nécessaire, conforme RGPD par design
Installation en moins de 2 minutes
Palier gratuit généreux (10k pages vues/mois)
Cons
Pas de funnel/conversion avancé comme Google Analytics
Marché déjà très concurrentiel (Plausible, Fathom, Simple Analytics)
Pas d'intégration native avec l'écosystème Google Ads