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Site owners, developers, and agencies that want inexpensive self-hosted analytics or a white-label analytics service
Important considerations: This is commercial source-available software, not an OSI open-source project. You operate PHP, MySQL, security, storage, backups, and privacy settings; SaaS resale requires the Extended license.
Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics
Important considerations: Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted.
| Attribute | 66analytics | GoatCounter |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | Commercial self-hosted web analytics software for PHP and MySQL that combines cookieless traffic reports, goals, visitor profiles, session replay, heatmaps, teams, and optional white-label SaaS controls. | A lightweight, privacy-aware open-source web analytics service with cookieless visit counting, referrers, campaigns, browser and location reports, exports, and JavaScript-free tracking options. |
| Pricing | One-time licenses: Regular $49 for personal use and Extended $319 for operating a SaaS; source code, future updates, and six months of support are included | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Site owners, developers, and agencies that want inexpensive self-hosted analytics or a white-label analytics service | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics |
| Operator | 66analytics Independent project | Martin Tournoij Independent project |
| Company base | Distributed organization | Ireland · European Union |
| Organization scale | 1 team members · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 | 1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. |
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| Important considerations | This is commercial source-available software, not an OSI open-source project. You operate PHP, MySQL, security, storage, backups, and privacy settings; SaaS resale requires the Extended license. | Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted. |
| Integrations | REST API, Webhooks, WordPress, Stripe, PayPal | Ghost, Hugo |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. |
This matrix shows capabilities recorded in our catalog. Not listed means we have not confirmed the capability here. Check the linked vendor sources for plan, deployment, and usage limits.
| Attribute | 66analytics | GoatCounter |
|---|---|---|
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Listed | Not listed |
| Heatmaps | Listed | Not listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Not listed | Listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Listed | Not listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |