PoeticMetric
A privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that shows you how your website is doing without cookies, consent banners, or a cluttered dashboard full of metrics nobody looks at.
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Description
Google Analytics is free, but it comes with a cost most site owners don't think about: cookie banners, GDPR headaches, and a dashboard so packed with metrics it's hard to find the two or three numbers that actually matter. PoeticMetric is built to answer "how is my site doing" in one glance, without tracking cookies or the compliance overhead.
PoeticMetric is an open-source, self-hostable web analytics platform designed as a lightweight, privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics. It avoids invasive cookies (so it doesn't require a consent banner in most jurisdictions), integrates in minutes with popular frameworks like React, Vue, and Angular, and supports team collaboration for shared client or internal reporting. Because the code is open source, it can also be self-hosted for teams that want full data ownership.
💬 Our review
The short version: if you want to know your traffic numbers without becoming a part-time cookie-consent compliance officer, PoeticMetric's cookie-free, open-source approach is a solid pick — as long as your traffic fits comfortably under 100K page views a month on the free tier.
Its real competition is Plausible and Fathom Analytics, not Google Analytics — all three sell the same pitch of "privacy-first, no cookies, simple dashboard." PoeticMetric's edge is being open source and self-hostable, which Plausible and Fathom also offer but gate behind their own paid/OSS split; the practical difference between the three often comes down to price and community size, and PoeticMetric's community is smaller than Plausible's at this point. The free Hobbyist tier (100K page views, 1 site, 2-year retention) is genuinely usable for a small blog or portfolio, but the jump to Pro at $29/month for the same 100K page views but more users/sites/unlimited retention is where you pay for growth. Best fit: developers and small teams who want a no-cookie-banner analytics tool and like having the self-hosting option in their back pocket. Weaker fit: teams already deep in the Google ecosystem (Google Ads attribution, etc.) who'd lose integrations by switching away from GA.
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Hobbyist (gratuit) : 100K pages vues/mois, 1 utilisateur, 1 site, rétention 2 ans. Pro : 29 $/mois, 100K pages vues, jusqu'à 20 utilisateurs, 50 sites, rétention illimitée (essai 14 jours, 2 mois offerts en annuel). Enterprise : à partir de 7 800 $/an pour 5M+ pages vues.
Pros
Open source et auto-hébergeable
Aucun cookie invasif, pas de bannière de consentement nécessaire
Intégration rapide (React, Vue, Angular)
Interface de reporting épurée, sans surcharge de métriques
Cons
Palier gratuit limité à 100K pages vues et 2 ans de rétention
Moins de fonctionnalités qu'une suite analytics complète
Communauté plus petite que Plausible