10 Best Website Analytics Tools of 2026

This list is for site owners deciding between free analytics and a paid, privacy-first tool that charges by monthly pageviews or events. We compared documented features and published prices for ten tools: two free platforms from Google and Cloudflare, six cookieless tools priced by traffic, and two broader suites that can be self-hosted or billed by usage. Tools are ranked by value first, then features, then ease of use. Prices are in USD as shown on each vendor's pricing page on the check date; where the page showed euros from our location, the price is marked pending and the value score is conservative.

1. 01Top value

   

   Plausible

   9.0/10

   Lightweight, cookieless and EU-hosted analytics on a single dashboard, priced by monthly pageviews.

   Price

   $9per month for up to 10k pageviews

   Starter from $9 per month for up to 10k monthly pageviews on one site; 30-day free trial

   “Starter /year /month $9 /month Custom Start free trial One site No retention limit” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   No

   Free trial

   30 days

   Value (40%)

   8.9

   Features (35%)

   8.7

   Ease of use (25%)

   9.4

   Best forSite owners who want the simplest privacy-first dashboard and are happy to pay a small monthly fee.

   Plausible is the easiest of the paid tools to hand to a client or a non-analyst. Everything sits on one page, the real-time view uses the same metrics as the main dashboard, and scroll depth is tracked on every page without setup. Starter costs $9 a month for up to 10k monthly pageviews on one site, with no retention limit, email or Slack reports, Google Analytics import, goals, custom events, saved segments and annotations. Growth at $14 adds up to 3 sites and 3 team members, and Business at $19 adds funnels, ecommerce revenue attribution, custom properties and the Stats API. Plausible also reports traffic from AI tools and can pull Search Console queries into the dashboard. The price climbs with pageviews, and there is no permanent free hosted plan, so very small sites pay more per visit than on Umami or Pirsch. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not run the script on our own pages.

   • ✓The script is 54 times smaller than Google Analytics, per Plausible
   • ✓No retention limit even on the $9 Starter plan
   • ✓Built-in filtering for bots, referrer spam and data center traffic

   • ✕No permanent free hosted plan, only a 30-day trial
   • ✕Starter covers one site; more sites and team members need Growth or Business
   • ✕Funnels and ecommerce revenue attribution start on the $19 Business plan

   Entry plan:

   Starter, up to 10k monthly pageviews, one site

   Free trial:

   30 days, no credit card required

   Hosting:

   Made and hosted in the EU

   Paying subscribers:

   22k, per Plausible

   Bottom line: Plausible is the cleanest paid dashboard for owners who want answers without training. Expect to pay more per pageview than Umami or Pirsch.

   Visit plausible.io ↗

2. 02

   

   Umami

   9.0/10

   Open source, cookieless website analytics with a free cloud plan and usage-based paid tiers.

   Price

   $20per month

   Free Hobby plan for 100K events a month; Pro from $20 per month with 1 million events included

   “Pro $20 / month Try 14-day free trial Everything in Hobby, plus: 1 million events per month included” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   Yes

   Free trial

   14 days

   Value (40%)

   9.4

   Features (35%)

   8.6

   Ease of use (25%)

   8.9

   Best forSite owners who want a free start and a low price per million events as traffic grows.

   Umami ranks first because it covers both halves of this decision. The free Hobby plan handles up to 100K events a month on one website and still includes reports that other free tools hold back, such as funnels, user retention, user journeys, goals, revenue and attribution. When you outgrow it, Pro costs $20 a month for 1 million events across up to 20 websites and 10 team members, with two years of retention, API access, MCP access, integrations and email support. Extra events on Pro are billed at $0.00003 each, so a traffic spike adds cents rather than forcing a plan jump. The trade-offs are retention and depth: Hobby keeps six months of data, and session replays and heatmaps only arrive on the $200 Business plan. Umami lists GDPR and CCPA compliance and says no cookie banners are required. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not install the tracker on a live site.

   • ✓The free plan includes funnels, retention and attribution reports
   • ✓Pro adds 2 years of data retention, API and MCP access for $20 a month
   • ✓Extra events on Pro cost $0.00003 each, so overages stay small

   • ✕Hobby keeps only 6 months of data and supports 1 website
   • ✕Email reports and team features start on Pro
   • ✕Session replays and heatmaps require the $200 Business plan

   Free plan:

   Up to 100K events per month, 1 website, 6 months retention

   Pro allowance:

   1 million events, up to 20 websites, 10 team members

   Overage:

   $0.00003 per additional event on Pro

   Business plan:

   $200 per month for 10 million events, replays and heatmaps

   Bottom line: Umami gives the strongest mix of a usable free tier and a cheap paid plan for 1 million events. Start on Hobby and move to Pro when you need more sites or longer history.

   Visit umami.is ↗

3. 03

   

   Google Analytics 4

   8.8/10

   Google's free analytics platform for websites and apps, with an enterprise tier sold as Analytics 360.

   Price

   Freefree

   Free; Analytics 360 for enterprises is sold through Google with custom pricing

   “Google Analytics gives you the tools, free of charge, to understand the customer journey and improve marketing ROI.” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   Yes

   Value (40%)

   9.5

   Features (35%)

   9.4

   Ease of use (25%)

   6.9

   Best forSites that run Google Ads or need cross-platform reporting and are willing to learn a complex tool.

   Google Analytics 4 is the default free choice and still the most capable tool here for the price of nothing. Google describes it as free of charge, and it measures websites and apps in one place, uses machine learning to surface insights and anticipate customer actions, and offers cross-platform attribution with flexible, shareable reports. Its biggest advantage is integration: it connects to Google Ads, Search Ads 360, Display & Video 360, Google Cloud and Search Console, so ad buyers can see campaigns and conversions together. The costs are time and consent. GA4 takes longer to learn than any single-page tool on this list, and because it relies on identifiers, cookie banners and consent choices change how much traffic it records. Simple Analytics, for example, markets itself as a way to measure the visitors GA4 misses. Larger companies can move to Analytics 360, whose price is not published. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not audit a GA4 property.

   • ✓No charge for the standard product
   • ✓Deepest link to Google Ads and other Google marketing tools
   • ✓Analytics 360 is available if a site grows into enterprise needs

   • ✕Reports are harder to learn than single-page dashboards
   • ✕Can use persistent identifiers, so consent choices affect what it records
   • ✕Analytics 360 pricing is not published

   Price:

   Free of charge

   Platforms:

   Websites and apps

   Enterprise tier:

   Analytics 360

   Integrations:

   Google Ads, Search Ads 360, Display & Video 360, Google Cloud, Search Console

   Bottom line: GA4 is the strongest free option for sites that buy Google ads or need app and web data together. Pair it with a cookieless tool if consent rates are low.

   Visit google.com ↗

4. 04

   

   Pirsch

   8.8/10

   Cookieless analytics hosted in Germany, priced by monthly page views with a built-in URL shortener.

   Price

   $6per month for 10,000 page views

   Standard from $6 per month for 10,000 monthly page views; 30-day free trial with no credit card

   “Starting at only $6 per month for 10,000 monthly page views.” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   No

   Free trial

   30 days

   Value (40%)

   9.0

   Features (35%)

   8.5

   Ease of use (25%)

   8.7

   Best forOwners of several small sites who want the cheapest paid privacy-first plan.

   Pirsch has the lowest verified paid price here, $6 a month for 10,000 monthly page views, and it is generous with everything except traffic. The Standard plan includes 50 websites, unlimited members, unlimited data retention, events and conversion goals, session analysis, a built-in URL shortener, a REST API with SDKs and Google Analytics import. Plus at $12 a month adds unlimited websites, funnels, A/B testing and segmentation, teams, custom domains and white labeling. Developers get server-side integration, native webhooks and script proxies, which helps when ad blockers drop client-side scripts. Pirsch also imports data from Plausible and Fathom, so switching is easier. The catch is that custom events and 10% of session extension events count toward the page view allowance, so busy event tracking moves you up a tier sooner. There is a 30-day trial but no permanent free plan. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not test the tracker.

   • ✓Cheapest verified paid plan on this list at $6 a month
   • ✓50 websites and unlimited members even on Standard
   • ✓Server-side integration and native webhooks for developers

   • ✕No permanent free plan
   • ✕Funnels, A/B testing and segmentation need the $12 Plus plan
   • ✕Custom events count toward the page view limit

   Entry plan:

   Standard, 10,000 monthly page views

   Websites:

   50 on Standard, unlimited on Plus

   Data retention:

   Unlimited

   Hosting:

   Cloud in Germany, or on-premise on Enterprise

   Bottom line: Pirsch is the cheapest way to pay for privacy-first analytics across many small sites. Size the plan for events as well as page views.

   Visit pirsch.io ↗

5. 05

   

   Fathom Analytics

   8.6/10

   Independently owned, cookieless analytics with the same features on every plan and pricing by pageview tier.

   Price

   $15per month for up to 100,000 pageviews

   From $15 per month for up to 100,000 monthly pageviews; 7-day free trial, card required

   “$15/month Up to 100,000 monthly pageviews” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   No

   Free trial

   7 days

   Value (40%)

   8.4

   Features (35%)

   8.3

   Ease of use (25%)

   9.4

   Best forSites with steady traffic above 10,000 pageviews that want one flat feature set.

   Fathom keeps pricing simple: you pick a monthly pageview tier across all your sites and get the same features on every plan. The entry tier is $15 a month for up to 100,000 pageviews, then $25 for 200,000, $45 for 500,000 and $60 for 1 million, with yearly billing giving two months free. Every plan includes 50 sites, event and revenue tracking, UTM campaign tracking, saved views, shared dashboards, automatic bot filtering, the analytics API and unlimited email reports and exports. It is cookieless, so no consent banner is needed for analytics, and the company describes itself as independently owned. For a site under 10,000 pageviews, Pirsch or Plausible cost less, but once traffic passes that level Fathom's entry tier covers far more visits for the money. The trial is only 7 days and requires a card, and history is kept while you remain subscribed. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not run a trial.

   • ✓The entry tier covers 100,000 pageviews, ten times Plausible Starter
   • ✓No feature gating between tiers
   • ✓Two months free when you switch to yearly billing

   • ✕No free plan, and the 7-day trial requires a card
   • ✕The $15 entry price is higher than Pirsch or Plausible for very small sites
   • ✕Full analytics history is kept only while you are subscribed

   Entry tier:

   $15 a month for up to 100,000 pageviews

   1 million pageviews:

   $60 a month

   Sites included:

   50

   Free trial:

   7 days, card required

   Bottom line: Fathom is the best value per pageview among the paid cookieless tools once traffic passes 10,000 a month. Very small sites pay less elsewhere.

   Visit usefathom.com ↗

6. 06

   

   PostHog

   8.5/10

   An all-in-one product platform whose web analytics shares a usage-based bill with replays, flags and experiments.

   Price

   Freeper event after 1 million free

   Free up to 1 million events a month; pay as you go from $0.00005 per event after that

   “then pricing starts at $ 0.00005 / event and reduces with volume” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   Yes

   Value (40%)

   8.8

   Features (35%)

   9.4

   Ease of use (25%)

   6.8

   Best forSoftware companies that want web analytics alongside product analytics and session replay.

   PostHog is the broadest tool here, and its free allowance is large. Every month the first 1 million analytics events are free, along with 5K session recordings, 1 million feature flag requests, 100K exceptions and 1,500 survey responses, and no card is needed. Above that, the pay-as-you-go plan bills web analytics from $0.00005 per event, with rates falling as volume rises, and it lifts projects from 1 to 6 and retention from one year to two. You can set billing limits per product, and PostHog says there is no minimum spend or annual contract. The trade-off is complexity: web analytics sits beside replays, experiments, flags, surveys and warehouse tools, so a site owner who only wants pageviews will find more settings than they need. On the free plan, events beyond the limit are dropped rather than billed. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not build a PostHog project.

   • ✓The free allowance resets every month with no card required
   • ✓No minimum spend or annual contract
   • ✓Covers product analytics and replays that pure web tools lack

   • ✕Many products and settings make it harder to learn than single-page tools
   • ✕Usage pricing is harder to predict than a pageview tier
   • ✕Free plan data is kept for 1 year, and extra events are dropped

   Free allowance:

   1M analytics events, 5K recordings, 1M flag requests per month

   Paid pricing:

   From $0.00005 per event after the free tier

   Retention:

   1 year free, 2 years pay as you go

   Projects:

   1 free, 6 on pay as you go

   Bottom line: PostHog is the best pick when a website is also a software product that needs replays and experiments. For a simple content site, it is more tool than you need.

   Visit posthog.com ↗

7. 07

   

   Cloudflare Web Analytics

   8.4/10

   Free, privacy-first analytics from Cloudflare that works with a JavaScript snippet or on proxied sites.

   Price

   Freefree

   Free; needs a Cloudflare account and a JavaScript snippet

   “Privacy-first, lightweight, accurate web analytics—for free” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   Yes

   Value (40%)

   9.5

   Features (35%)

   6.8

   Ease of use (25%)

   9.0

   Best forOwners who want a free, cookieless traffic baseline and do not need campaign tracking.

   Cloudflare Web Analytics is the simplest free option on this list. It needs a Cloudflare account and a JavaScript snippet, works without changing DNS or using Cloudflare's proxy, and Cloudflare says it does not collect or use visitors' personal data. Alongside page views and visitors, it reports page load time and Core Web Vitals from real browsers, which most traffic-only tools skip. Sites not proxied through Cloudflare are limited to 10, while proxied sites have no limit. The limits matter for marketing work. Data is available for the previous six months, unsampled beacon data is kept for 7 days before being aggregated down to around 10%, and UTM parameters are not logged, so campaign attribution is out. It fits best as a free baseline or a speed monitor, paired with another tool if you need goals or campaigns. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not add the beacon to a site.

   • ✓Free with no traffic tiers to watch
   • ✓Performance metrics from real visitors alongside traffic
   • ✓No limit on sites proxied through Cloudflare

   • ✕Data is available for the previous six months only
   • ✕UTM parameters are not logged
   • ✕Data older than 7 days is aggregated down to around 10% samples

   Price:

   Free

   Site limit:

   10 if not proxied through Cloudflare, no limit if proxied

   Data access:

   Previous six months

   UTM tracking:

   Not supported

   Bottom line: Cloudflare Web Analytics is a free, cookieless way to see traffic and page speed. It lacks UTM tracking and long history, so it rarely replaces a full tool.

   Visit cloudflare.com ↗

8. 08

   

   Matomo

   8.3/10

   Open source analytics platform that is free to self-host, with a paid cloud edition priced by monthly hits.

   Price

   Free plan

   See vendor pricing (USD check pending); On-Premise is free to download

   US price check pending. Vendor pricing page

   Free plan

   Yes

   Value (40%)

   8.4

   Features (35%)

   9.3

   Ease of use (25%)

   6.9

   Best forTeams that want GA-style depth with full data ownership and can host it themselves.

   Matomo is the most complete alternative to Google Analytics for owners who want to keep their data. The On-Premise edition is, in Matomo's words, forever free to download, so a team with a server can run full analytics at the cost of hosting. The Cloud edition is priced by monthly hits starting at 50,000, and its Business plan lists 30 websites, 30 team members, 24 months of raw data, report data kept forever, no data sampling, a Google Analytics importer, GDPR Manager, funnels, A/B testing, heatmaps and session recordings. Ecommerce, event, campaign and site search tracking are included in all plans, and data is stored in Frankfurt. The pricing page showed euros from our location, so the USD price is pending and the value score is conservative. Matomo is also harder to learn than the cookieless dashboards, and self-hosting adds updates and security work. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not install Matomo.

   • ✓Free self-hosting gives full data ownership
   • ✓Broad feature set close to Google Analytics, without sampling
   • ✓Cloud Business includes 30 websites and 30 team members

   • ✕Cloud prices showed in euros to our checker, so USD pricing is pending
   • ✕Self-hosting means running and updating your own server
   • ✕The interface has more menus than single-page tools

   Self-hosted:

   Free to download

   Cloud entry tier:

   50,000 hits per month

   Cloud allowances:

   30 websites, 30 team members, 24 months raw data

   Cloud data location:

   Frankfurt, Germany

   Bottom line: Matomo suits teams that want deep reporting and full ownership, especially if they can self-host for free. Simpler tools are faster to learn.

   Visit matomo.org ↗

9. 09

   

   Clicky

   8.2/10

   Long-running real-time analytics with visitor-level detail, priced by daily page views.

   Price

   $9.99per month for 30,000 daily page views

   Free plan for 1 site and 3,000 daily page views; Pro from $9.99 per month or $79.99 per year

   “Monthly price $9.99 $14.99 $19.99 Varies” Quoted from the pricing page, November 10, 2026.

   Free plan

   Yes

   Free trial

   21 days

   Value (40%)

   8.6

   Features (35%)

   8.0

   Ease of use (25%)

   7.8

   Best forOwners who want to watch individual visitors in real time on a few sites.

   Clicky has been around longer than most of the cookieless tools and still offers something they do not: visitor-level detail in real time. Its Spy view streams people on your site as they move, and reports show individual visitors and actions, path analysis, outbound links, downloads, organizations and engagement. The free plan tracks 1 website and 3,000 page views a day. Pro costs $9.99 a month or $79.99 a year for 10 websites and 30,000 daily page views, and Pro Plus at $14.99 adds heatmaps and uptime monitoring. Every new account gets a 21-day trial of premium service. Limits are counted per day rather than per month, so a single viral day can exceed the cap even if the monthly total is modest. Visitor-level reporting is useful but sits further from the privacy-minimal approach of Plausible or Fathom. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not run Clicky on a site.

   • ✓Free plan for 1 site with 3,000 daily page views
   • ✓Annual billing saves 33%, so Pro is $79.99 a year
   • ✓21-day premium trial on every new account

   • ✕Limits are per day, which is awkward for spiky traffic
   • ✕Heatmaps need Pro Plus at $14.99 a month
   • ✕Visitor-level reports are less privacy-minimal than cookieless tools

   Free plan:

   1 website, 3,000 daily page views

   Pro:

   10 websites, 30,000 daily page views

   Annual price:

   $79.99 per year for Pro

   Trial:

   21 days of premium service

   Bottom line: Clicky is a good value if you want to see individual visits live, with yearly Pro at $79.99. Privacy-first buyers will prefer the cookieless tools.

   Visit clicky.com ↗

10. 10

    

    Simple Analytics

    8.0/10

    EU-owned, cookieless analytics with a one-page dashboard, also sold to run alongside GA4.

    Price

    Free plan

    See vendor pricing (USD check pending); free plan for hobby sites

    US price check pending. Vendor pricing page

    Free plan

    Yes

    Free trial

    14 days

    Value (40%)

    7.6

    Features (35%)

    7.6

    Ease of use (25%)

    9.1

    Best forEU companies that want analytics with no personal data and a measure of traffic GA4 misses.

    Simple Analytics is the strictest of the cookieless tools on data collection. It records pageviews and events without visitor IDs, uses no cookies and no consent banners, and is EU-owned and EU-hosted. The self-serve plan is a one-page dashboard that needs no configuration, with an API, exports, an AI assistant and an MCP server listed in the product menu. The free plan for hobby sites covers 1 user and 5 websites but keeps only the latest month of data and requires a badge. The company also sells an enterprise setup that runs next to GA4 to measure traffic lost when visitors reject consent, with a 30-day proof of concept. Its pricing page showed euros from our location and charges extra per additional user, so we marked the USD price pending and scored value conservatively. Feature depth is lighter than Umami or Plausible at similar traffic. We compared documented features and published prices; we did not run a trial.

    • ✓Free plan for hobby sites covers 1 user and 5 websites
    • ✓Records pageviews without visitor IDs
    • ✓30-day proof of concept for teams comparing against GA4

    • ✕Prices showed in euros to our checker, so USD pricing is pending
    • ✕The free plan keeps only the latest month and requires a badge
    • ✕Extra users are charged on top of the base plan

    Free plan:

    1 user, 5 websites, 1 month history, badge required

    Self-serve trial:

    14 days

    Users:

    31,300+, per Simple Analytics

    Hosting:

    EU-owned and EU-hosted

    Bottom line: Simple Analytics fits EU teams that want the least data collected and a check on GA4's consent gap. Confirm the USD price before you buy.

    Visit simpleanalytics.com ↗

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