🆚 GoatCounter vs. Google Analytics

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Web analytics tool
Web analytics tool

About

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

Google Analytics is a web analytics solution provided by Google that helps website owners and businesses understand how visitors interact with their websites.

It supports event-based tracking, real-time reports, integration with Google Ads, e-commerce reporting, and provides customizable visitor segmentation.

Headquarters

Ireland
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️14-month retention, 10M event sampling threshold, 1M daily BigQuery export limit
Google Analytics 4 360$50,000+/year

Categories

Analytics › Rank #104
Analytics › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Analytics tool is 2,835 times more popular than GoatCounter.
Total websites

Market share

Analytics

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Google Analytics is more popular than GoatCounter in all countries.
United States
Japan
United Kingdom
Germany
Spain
France
Netherlands
Italy
Australia
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Google Analytics is more popular than GoatCounter in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Blogs/Wiki
Education/Reference
Internet Services
Entertainment
Travel
General News
Health
Software/Hardware

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
#5,480
#28,261
#48,651
#48,658
#52,134
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Name
Rank
#12
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