Company Overview
Splitbee was founded in 2020 by Sebastian Schelter and Timo Müller in Germany, operating with a remote-first team. Splitbee is a modern analytics tool that blends website analytics with product analytics, excelling at goal-driven data tracking and analysis.
Splitbee is built on the philosophy of "simple yet powerful" — offering both traditional web traffic metrics and product-level funnel and retention capabilities. Its deep integration with modern web frameworks like Vercel and Next.js has made it particularly popular in the frontend developer community.
Core Products
📊 Website & Product Analytics
- Splitbee: Core analytics platform providing both website traffic metrics and product behavior analysis
- Splitbee Funnels: Funnel analysis visualizing user conversion paths and identifying key drop-off points
- Splitbee Retention: Retention analysis tracking user return rates and long-term retention trends
- Splitbee Goals: Goal tracking for setting and measuring key business conversion metrics
🔌 Open Platform
- Splitbee API: RESTful API for integrating analytics data into your own systems
- Splitbee Integrations: Deep integration with Vercel, Next.js, Nuxt, Gatsby and other modern frameworks
Core Strengths
Goal-Driven Analytics: Core data tracking logic centered around Goals, naturally guiding focus to key business metrics
Modern Framework Friendly: Deep integrations with Vercel, Next.js and other modern web frameworks — plug and play for frontend developers
Website + Product Dual Mode: Covers both traditional web analytics and product behavior analysis in a single tool
Clean and Focused: Minimalist interface with no clutter, core metrics at a glance, extremely low learning curve
German Privacy Standards: European development team adhering to strict privacy protection standards
Key Milestones
| Year | Event |
|---|---|
| 2020 | Founded by Sebastian Schelter and Timo Müller in Germany |
| 2021 | Officially launched analytics platform, rapid early adoption in developer community |
| 2022 | Released funnel analysis and retention analysis features |
| 2023 | Completed deep integration with Vercel and Next.js |
| 2024 | Continued to expand API and integration ecosystem |
| 2026 | Iterating product features, serving global websites and product teams |
Market Position
Splitbee competes with the following providers in the website and product analytics market:
- Plausible: Lightweight privacy-friendly website analytics focused on core traffic metrics
- Pirsch: Privacy-first cookie-less analytics, compliance-oriented
- Simple Analytics: Minimalist privacy-friendly analytics with clean, focused features
- Fathom Analytics: Canadian privacy analytics tool focused on simplicity and compliance
- Umami: Open-source self-hosted analytics platform with full data control
- Matomo: Open-source self-hosted website analytics with mature feature set
Product Data
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2020 |
| Founders | Sebastian Schelter, Timo Müller |
| HQ | Germany (remote team) |
| Core Focus | Website analytics + Product analytics |
| Key Feature | Goals tracking, Funnel analysis |
| Deployment | SaaS cloud service |