Swetrix vs Simple Analytics: A Comprehensive Features Comparison

Swetrix and Simple Analytics are web analytics products that both focus on privacy and simplicity. We both share a common goal: tracking website traffic without compromising user privacy. Both are not using cookies to track users. However, we cater to slightly different needs.

Simple Analytics is known for its strict focus on simplicity, offering a simple dashboard with essential metrics. Swetrix offers a similar level of privacy and ease of use but includes more advanced features for deeper analysis, such as performance monitoring, session analysis, error tracking, and is fully open-source.

Here is a quick comparison to help you decide which one fits your needs.

Why choose Swetrix over Simple Analytics?

	Swetrix	Simple Analytics
Core Features
Real-time Analytics
Custom Events
Page views
Live visitors count
UTM Tracking
Device stats (browser, OS, type)
Email Reports
Geolocation data	Full (Country, State, City)	Basic (Country only)
Advanced Features
Performance Monitoring (Web Vitals)
User Flow Analysis
Error Tracking
Alerts / Notifications
Geolocation map visualisation
Funnels
Segments
Multiple Domains per Site
Security & Access
Bot filtering
Two-Factor Authentication (2FA)
Role-based Access Control
Shared Dashboards
Organisations (Teams)
Privacy & Compliance
Cookie-less Tracking
Open Source
Self-hostable
EU data residency
Technical specifications
Script size	6 KB	>7 KB
API access
Bypass adblockers
Pricing & Support
Entry price	$19.00	$15.00
Customer support

Key Difference: Open Source & Self-hosting

One of the biggest differences is that Swetrix is fully open-source and self-hostable. You can inspect our code, contribute to it, or host it entirely on your own infrastructure for free. This ensures you have full ownership and control over your data, and ensures our pledge to verifiable transparency.

Simple Analytics is a proprietary, closed-source product. You rely entirely on their cloud infrastructure and cannot verify the code quality or host it yourself.

Key Difference: Performance Monitoring

Swetrix goes beyond just traffic stats by tracking web performance metrics. These metrics show how fast your website loads for your users, and include metrics like Time to First Byte (TTFB), DNS resolution time, and page load speeds.

Simple Analytics focuses strictly on traffic statistics (visitors, pageviews) and does not provide performance monitoring features.

Key Difference: Depth of Analysis (User Flows, Errors)

Simple Analytics lives up to its name by keeping things simple. However, if you need to understand user behavior in depth, Swetrix offers more robust tools:

• User Flow: Swetrix provides diagrams that visualise exactly how visitors navigate through your site.
• Error Tracking: Swetrix can track JavaScript errors occurring on your website, helping you fix bugs that might be affecting conversion rates.
• Geolocation Map: Swetrix includes a map visualisation to see where your users are coming from, whereas Simple Analytics only provides country-based list.
• Funnels: With Swetrix, you can build your own funnels to track your user journeys, and see how many users make it from one step to the next. Simple Analytics does not provide this functionality.
• Alerts: Swetrix includes alerts to notify you when certain events occur, such as a new user signing up, a pageview being recorded, or a JavaScript error being logged. These alerts can be sent to you or your team by Slack, Discord, Telegram or custom webhooks. Simple Analytics does not provide this functionality.

Conclusion

If you want the absolute simplest tool and don't mind a closed-source product, Simple Analytics is a great choice.

If you prefer an open-source solution that offers deeper insights - like performance monitoring, user flows, and error tracking - and gives you the option to self-host, Swetrix is the better option. It combines the simplicity of privacy-friendly analytics with the power of advanced tools.