🆚 Fathom vs. GoatCounter

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web analytics tool
Web analytics tool

About

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.

GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app.

Headquarters

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Ireland

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️Fathom Lite, open source
$15+/month
Free ✔️Open source

Categories

Analytics › Rank #34
Analytics › Rank #104

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Fathom web analytics tool is 10 times more popular than GoatCounter.
Total websites

Market share

Analytics

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Fathom is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while GoatCounter is more popular in Ukraine, India, and Bulgaria.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Thailand
Netherlands
Canada
Norway
Australia
Belgium

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Fathom is more popular than GoatCounter in all market segments.
Business
Internet Services
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Education/Reference
Software/Hardware
Sports
Online Shopping
Technical Information

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#1,229
#6,061
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Name
Rank
#5,480
#28,261
#48,651
#48,658
#52,134
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See also

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