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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.
Privacy-conscious teams that want a feature-rich self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and cloud analytics suites
Important considerations: You operate the PHP and MySQL installation, backups, updates, retention, and privacy configuration; hosted service is available only by request.
| Attribute | GoatCounter | UXWizz |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | 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. | A self-hosted analytics and behavior analytics platform for teams that want full data ownership plus heatmaps, session recordings, funnels, A/B tests, error tracking, and AI-assisted analysis without recurring SaaS fees. |
| Pricing | Hosted service is donation-supported and free for reasonable public use; self-hosting is free and open source | Perpetual licenses: Solo $299, Growth & Scale $749, Agency $2,490; one year of updates and support included |
| Deployment | Self-hosted and hosted options | Self-hosted |
| Best for | Website owners who want simple, privacy-focused analytics | Privacy-conscious teams that want a feature-rich self-hosted alternative to Hotjar and cloud analytics suites |
| Operator | Martin Tournoij Independent project | TIPS4DESIGN SRL Independent private company |
| Company base | Ireland · European Union | Romania · European Union |
| Organization scale | 1 maintainers · operator, as of 13 Aug 2026 | No comparable official organization-size figure was publicly disclosed. |
| 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 | Hosted use is donation-supported with a reasonable-use policy; high-volume or specialized deployments should be self-hosted. | You operate the PHP and MySQL installation, backups, updates, retention, and privacy configuration; hosted service is available only by request. |
| Integrations | Ghost, Hugo | WordPress, DigitalOcean |
| Fact check | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-27. | We checked this information against official vendor sources on 2026-08-08. |
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 | GoatCounter | UXWizz |
|---|---|---|
| A/B testing | Not listed | Listed |
| Ad-blocker resistant | Not listed | Listed |
| AI insights | Not listed | Listed |
| Audience insights | Listed | Listed |
| Behavior analytics | Not listed | Listed |
| CCPA compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Cookieless | Listed | Listed |
| Custom reports | Listed | Listed |
| Data export | Listed | Listed |
| Data ownership | Listed | Listed |
| Error tracking | Not listed | Listed |
| Event tracking | Listed | Listed |
| Free plan | Listed | Not listed |
| Funnels | Not listed | Listed |
| GDPR compliant | Listed | Listed |
| Goals | Not listed | Listed |
| Heatmaps | Not listed | Listed |
| Integrations | Listed | Listed |
| Open source | Listed | Not listed |
| Privacy-first | Listed | Listed |
| Real-time data | Listed | Listed |
| Self-hosted | Listed | Listed |
| Session recordings | Not listed | Listed |
| User segments | Listed | Listed |