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Simple Analytics
Summary
Cookie-free website analytics, with an emphasis on visitor privacy.

Type of organisation: Privately-owned company (or group)
Market share: Up & coming challenger

Pricing: $19/month-$59/month
Factors driving pricing: More audience (e.g. more subscribers, traffic), More users (publishing-side)
Skills needed to set-up: Needs tool/domain expert to configure
Skills needed to use: Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Pros
Open Source alternatives available
Releases new features regularly
Shares product roadmap
Allows data export
Allows data deletion
Cons
Lacks accessibility statement
Does not share diversity data

Full Product Data Collection

Data collected January-February 2020

Product nameSimple Analytics
Product URLhttps://simpleanalytics.com/
Parent organisationN/A
Workflow categoryMeasurement & evaluation
Date product founded2018
Product descriptionCookie-free website analytics, with an emphasis on visitor privacy.
What type of company or organisation is the product owned by?Privately-owned company (or group)
Is the company profit-making?Cannot determine
How is this product funded?Subscriptions
What market share does the tool have?Up & coming challenger
Is there an Open Source alternative in this product space?Yes. Matomo, Open Web Analytics, AWStats, Countly
When did the company last release new features?December 2019: Cloudflare integration
Have they shared details of the product roadmap?Yes: Marked as ‘in progress’ (no release date noted): ‘Add referral to UI of events,’ ‘remove sa_cookie from events,’ let people download events, add time spent on site.
Is there talk of the product raising further investment?No
Is there talk of the product being acquired?No
Have there been any newsworthy business issues or challenges in the last 12 months?No
Is there a pricing model listed on the website?Yes
How clear & transparent is this pricing model?Partly: some pricing listed; must speak to salesperson to confirm
What is the range of prices offered?Starter $19/month or $108/annum
Business: $59/month or $588/annum
Enterprise: must speak to salesperson for pricing
What factors drive higher pricing?More audience (e.g. more subscribers, traffic), More users (publishing-side)
What skills are needed to get this tool set up & usable?Needs tool/domain expert to configure
What skills are needed to USE this tool day-to-day?Plug & play (any non-technical user can do it)
Does this tool use proprietary file formats for saving documents & outputs?Defaults to common open standard file formats
Is the product reliant on 3rd-party APIs or interoperability to function?No
Have there been any newsworthy technical issues in the last 3 years?No
How clear is the Terms of Service for users (i.e. publishing customers)?Technical, legalistic TOS
Does the product have a data collection & usage policy on its website? (Can be a GDPR statement)?Yes, topline.
Is their data policy “GDPR everywhere”?Yes, GDPR compliant globally
Does the product require your audience to sign-in to use it?N/A not an audience-facing tool
IF SIGN IN REQUIRED: Does audience sign-in use 3rd party platforms?N/A not an audience-facing tool
Does the public product website mention how to export or transfer your data to another service?Yes: Export publisher metadata, Yes: Export/transfer publisher content
Does the public product website mention how to delete your data?Yes: for publisher data only
Have there been any newsworthy security breaches with this product in the last 3 years?No
Does the company have an accessibility statement on its website?No / cannot find
Does the company release information on the diversity of the workforce?No