Let's be upfront: Plausible is a good product. It is privacy-first, EU-hosted and refreshingly light - the same things we believe in. The difference is what happens after the first week, when "how many visitors?" turns into "which path did they take, how fast were those pages, and what is my SEO doing?" That is the half Plausible deliberately leaves out, and the half we built.
Deliberate design choices - good for simplicity, limiting once you want answers.
Plausible aggregates everything by design. You can see that /pricing got 200 visits, but never the road one visitor took from a blog post to the signup page. When a funnel leaks, the journeys are where the answer lives.
Plausible tells you nothing about how fast your pages felt to real visitors. LCP, INP and CLS affect both your conversion and your Google ranking - measuring them needs a tracker that collects them, and Plausible's does not.
There is a Search Console hookup for search queries, and that is where it ends. No keyword rankings over time, no backlink profile, no domain health. You will be paying for a second tool to see the other half of your traffic picture.
Plausible shows a current-visitors counter and a last-30-minutes view. Corbacount shows who is on your site right now, on which page, updating live - and considers a visitor gone two minutes after their last pageview.
Plausible starts at $9/month for 10k pageviews (at the time of writing) and steps up tier by tier as your site grows. A good month on Hacker News is a bigger bill. Corbacount is a flat €4/month per site, whatever your traffic does.
The single-dashboard approach is lovely until you want to dig: top 20 and bottom 20 of every statistic, hourly patterns, per-page trends, goal-by-goal source breakdowns. At some point "simple" becomes "shallow", and there is nowhere deeper to click.
The same privacy stance - first-party, EU-hosted, no ad network - with the missing depth built in.
Follow the path a visitor took through your site, page by page - stored first-party, shown only to you, never shared or sold.
LCP, INP and CLS from your real visitors on every page, in the same dashboard as your traffic. No Lighthouse guesswork.
Keyword rankings, backlinks and domain health via DataForSEO, plus your Search Console queries - next to the visits they produce.
A live view of everyone on your site right now and the page they are reading, powered by Pusher. Visitors expire two minutes after their last pageview.
Track a "/thanks" page or set a single JavaScript variable - then trace conversions back to source, country and the exact path taken.
No pageview tiers, no surprise upgrades after a viral post. Every pageview counted, one predictable price.
| Plausible | Corbacount | |
|---|---|---|
| Hosting location | EU | Germany (EU) |
| Shares data with an ad network | No | No |
| Tracker script | <1 KB (smaller than ours) | 2.2 KB gzipped (7.3 KB raw), async, never blocks the page |
| Open source / self-hostable | Yes (Community Edition) | No - managed only |
| Individual visitor paths | No (aggregate only, by design) | Yes, first-party and private |
| Realtime view | Counter + last 30 minutes | Live per-visitor view (2-min presence) |
| Goals & funnels | Yes | Yes (URL or JS variable) |
| Core Web Vitals (LCP/INP/CLS) | No | Built-in, from real visitors |
| SEO data | Search Console queries only | GSC + rankings, backlinks, domain health |
| Top & bottom 20 of every stat | Top lists only | Yes, both ends |
| Ask your own AI questions (MCP) | No | Yes, via the MCP server |
| Price for one site | From $9/month per 10k pageviews | €4/month, flat |
Plausible details and pricing as published at the time of writing - check plausible.io for their current offer. We aim to keep this fair; tell us if something is outdated. Last checked: 12 June 2026.
No. If all you want is a clean visitor count without the privacy baggage, Plausible does that well and we will not pretend otherwise. This page exists for the moment you want more than the count - paths, speed, SEO - without giving up the privacy stance.
Because it does more: it measures Core Web Vitals from real visitors, powers the live realtime view and tracks goal conversions. At 2.2 KB gzipped (7.3 KB raw) loaded async via sendBeacon it never blocks your page - for contrast, GA4 with Tag Manager runs into the hundreds of KB. See the full script-size comparison.
The data stays first-party: one _cc_vid cookie on your own domain, stored in the EU, shown only to you and never combined across sites or customers. That is a very different thing from shipping identifiers to an advertising graph.
The tracker is one snippet - drop it in next to Plausible's, run both for a few weeks, compare, and turn off the one you no longer need. Also weighing the self-hosted route? Read our Corbacount vs Matomo page.
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