GoatCounter: Free, Noninvasive Analytics
Users, Views, and Livestock
Analytics, At What Cost?
It’s 2025. You’ve built a humble little site. Like a portfolio, or maybe a documentation hub for your custom waifu GPT.
And the question hits you:
Is anyone actually visiting this thing?
That’s it. You’re not trying to build a targeted ad campaign or fingerprint every visitor. You just want a simple counter.
So naturally, you get recommended Google Analytics. Or Plausible. Or Mixpanel. Or Heap. Or PostHog. Or one of the dozens of other options that all promise “simple, privacy-first analytics” but still somehow give off the same vibes as the Church of Scientology.