Pirsch is privacy-friendly web analytics made and hosted in Germany, cookie-free and compliant with GDPR, CCPA, PECR, and Schrems II, with an open-source core, plugin and API backend integration, and support for events, A/B testing, funnels, sessions, and conversion goals.
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Umami now positions itself as "Open-Source Web and Product Analytics", bringing acquisition, behavior, conversion, retention, and revenue into one privacy-first platform - no cookies, no personal data - available self-hosted or as Umami Cloud, with an official MCP server.
Simple Analytics is an EU-owned, EU-hosted privacy analytics service based in Amsterdam with 31,300+ users cited; it markets no cookies, no personal data, and no visitor IDs, and positions itself as a cookieless layer running alongside GA4 to recover traffic GA4 misses after consent is rejected.
Microanalytics is a privacy-first lightweight web analytics tool positioned as a GA4 alternative: no cookies, no consent-banner headaches, goal and conversion tracking, real-time traffic and referrer views, an about 1KB script, and EU-hosted data.
Shynet is Mike Miles' open-source, self-hosted web analytics project (Apache-2.0, built on Django) that works without cookies or JavaScript; note that its official site shynet.io no longer resolves, so the GitHub repository is now the primary source.