Full Product Data Collection
Data collected January-February 2020
Product name | Simple Analytics |
Product URL | https://simpleanalytics.com/ |
Parent organisation | N/A |
Workflow category | Measurement & evaluation |
Date product founded | 2018 |
Product description | Cookie-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 |