Fathom
Fathom is a privacy-first website analytics solution that provides real-time traffic metrics with compliance with GDPR, CCPA, ePrivacy, and PECR, while filtering out bots, scrapers, and spam traffic.
It offers lightweight, cookieless analytics with accurate human visitor data, an intuitive dashboard with real-time metrics, custom event and UTM campaign tracking, unlimited data retention, email reporting and API access, and an open-source self-hosted Lite version.
According to our data, Fathom ranks 36th among the web analytics tools we track.
It has 0.3% of the web analytics market share and is detected on 0.1% of all websites.
It is especially popular in the United Kingdom, where it appears on 0.3% of all websites, and in the United States, where it appears on 0.2%.
- 🏠 Website
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GitHub💸 Pricing
Fathom is available in both free and paid versions.
📊 Rankings and Market Share
- Analytics
- Rank: 36
- Market share: 0.3%
🏆 Fathom Awards
- ⭐ 7th most popular in Thailand in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 12nd most popular in Norway in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 14th most popular in Belgium in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 16th most popular in Ireland in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Analytics category.
- 🔥 17th most popular in Austria in the Analytics category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Canada in the Analytics category.
- ⬆️ 21st most popular in Denmark in the Analytics category.
- ⬆️ 22nd most popular in Switzerland in the Analytics category.
- ⬆️ 23rd most popular in Germany in the Analytics category.
⚡ Sites Using Fathom
We have data on 5,282 websites that use the Fathom web analytics tool. Here is a list of some of the top ranked ones.
The highest rated site using Fathom is 
padlet.com.
| # | Website | Rank | Country | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | padlet.com |
#1,236 | United States | English |
| 2 | #11,563 | United States | English | |
| 3 | #12,545 | Germany | German | |
| 4 | #13,752 | Netherlands | Dutch | |
| 5 |  getbootstrap.com |
#13,759 | United States | English |
| 6 | #13,938 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 7 | #14,722 | English | ||
| 8 | #14,772 | United Kingdom | English | |
| 9 | #15,048 | United States | American English | |
| 10 | #15,330 | United States | English | |
| 11 | #16,282 | United States | American English | |
| 12 | #16,593 | United States | English | |
| 13 | #16,608 | English | ||
| 14 | #17,259 | United States | English | |
| 15 | #18,731 | American English | ||
| 16 | #18,951 | Germany | German | |
| 17 | #18,971 | American English | ||
| 18 | #19,355 | American English | ||
| 19 | #20,272 | Canada | American English | |
| 20 | #20,622 | Austria | Austrian German |
📈 Usage Statistics
Most of the sites that use Fathom:
- are located in the United States
- have content in English
- use the .com domain extension
- fall into the Business category.
Most of the sites using Fathom are from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany.
- United States 27.1%
- United Kingdom 17%
- Germany 8.5%
- Thailand 5%
- Canada 4.6%
- Netherlands 4.3%
- France 4.2%
- Norway 3.3%
- Belgium 2.6%
- Other 23.4%
Most Fathom users speak English, German, or Thai.
- English 74.5%
- German 6.5%
- Thai 3.6%
- Dutch 3.4%
- French 2.9%
- Norwegian Bokmål 1.7%
- Spanish 1.3%
- Danish 0.9%
- Swedish 0.8%
- Other 4.4%
The Fathom web analytics tool is especially popular on .com and .org top-level domains.
- .com 49%
- .org 9%
- .co.uk 4.8%
- .de 3.7%
- .net 2.7%
- .nl 2.4%
- .no 2.3%
- .io 2.1%
- .be 1.3%
- Other 22.7%
The primary market segments for websites utilizing Fathom include business, Internet services, and marketing and merchandising.
- Business 19.8%
- Internet Services 10.1%
- Marketing/Merchandising 8.6%
- Blogs/Wiki 7.5%
- Entertainment 5.2%
- Education/Reference 4.9%
- Software/Hardware 4.2%
- Sports 3.8%
- Online Shopping 3.3%
- Other 32.6%
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💬 Frequently Asked Questions
Where is Fathom from?
Fathom is from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.
Does Fathom offer a free plan?
Yes, there is a free version with limited functionality.
What is the starting price of Fathom?
The pricing for Fathom starts at $15 per month.
Is there a free trial available?
Yes, you can try Fathom for free for 7 days and test all of its features.
Which country uses Fathom the most?
The majority of Fathom users are from the United States.
Who uses Fathom?
According to our data, Fathom is used on thousands of sites, including such established ones as padlet.com, sanity.io, and
uni-passau.de.
Is Fathom used on government websites?
Yes, for example, it is used by cuyahogacounty.gov. Overall, we found Fathom on 4 government sites in the United States.
Do academic institutions use Fathom?
Yes. The most notable of these is marshall.edu. Overall, we know of 7 academic websites in the United States that use Fathom.
How does Fathom stack up against the competition?
Fathom is a fairly popular web analytics tool, ranking ahead of 151 other web analytics tools we track.
🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 4,009,087 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.