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Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics
Important considerations: Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher.
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 | Clicky | GoatCounter |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | A hosted real-time web analytics platform with individual visitor activity, path analysis, goals, revenue tracking, heatmaps, uptime monitoring, exports, and white-label options. | 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 | Free for one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; paid plans start at $9.99/month or $79.99/year | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source |
| Deployment | Vendor-hosted cloud | Self-hosted and hosted options |
| Best for | Small to medium-sized businesses looking for affordable real-time analytics | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics |
| Operator | Roxr Software, Ltd. Independent private company | Martin Tournoij Independent project |
| Company base | Portland, United States · United States | Ireland · European Union |
| Organization scale | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. | 1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 |
| Recent direction | operational reliability Recent official evidence shows a focus on operational reliability. | self-hosted expansion Recent official evidence shows a focus on self-hosted expansion. |
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| Important considerations | Free accounts cover one site and 3,000 daily pageviews; heatmaps and uptime monitoring require Pro Plus or higher. | Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted. |
| Integrations | WordPress, Shopify | 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 | Clicky | GoatCounter |
|---|---|---|
| Ad-blocker resistant | Listed | Not listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Listed | Not listed |
| CCPA compliant | Not listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Not listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Not listed | Listed |
| E-commerce tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Listed |
| Funnels | Listed | Not listed |
| GDPR compliant | Not 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 |
| Revenue tracking | Listed | Not listed |
| Self-hosted | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |