🆚 GoatCounter vs. Google Analytics

📈 Google Analytics is much more popular than GoatCounter.
🌍 Google Analytics is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.5M+ analyzed websites. About this data

GoatCounter

Google Analytics

Type

Web analytics tool

About

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

It provides cookieless analytics, supports event tracking and JavaScript-free tracking pixel option, and uses a lightweight script of about 3.5 KB.

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

goatcounter.com #713,555

analytics.google.com

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source

Free version ✔️14-month retention, 10M event sampling threshold, 1M daily BigQuery export limit

Google Analytics 360$50,000+/year

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Google Analytics tool is 2,658 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

France

Spain

Italy

Netherlands

Australia

India

Awards

⬆️ 70th most popular in the Netherlands in the Analytics category.
⬆️ 83rd most popular in Germany in the Analytics category.
⬆️ 94th most popular in the United Kingdom in the Analytics category.
⬆️ 103rd most popular in the United States in the Analytics category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Analytics category.
🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Analytics category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Analytics category.
🥇 Most popular in Germany in the Analytics category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the Analytics category.

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

Blogs/Wiki

Education/Reference

Internet Services

Entertainment

Health

General News

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Software/Hardware

Finance/Banking

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#5,480

#28,261

#48,651

#48,658

#52,134

Name

Rank

#12

#15

#20