🆚 Open Web Analytics vs. PostHog

Type

Web analytics tool
Web analytics tool

About

Open Web Analytics is an open-source web analytics platform designed as a self-hosted alternative to services such as Google Analytics.

It tracks page views, visitor behavior, click paths, search terms, and custom events, and includes click heatmaps, mouse movement recording, and integrations for WordPress and MediaWiki.

PostHog is an open-source product analytics platform available as a self-hosted deployment or managed cloud service.

It offers event and funnel analytics, retention and cohort analysis, session recording and heatmaps, feature flags and A/B testing, customizable dashboards, plugins, and data export to data warehouses such as BigQuery and Snowflake.

Headquarters

San Francisco, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free ✔️Open source
Free version ✔️Open source
PostHog Cloud
Free tier ✔️1M events, 5K session recordings
Usage based (after 1M free events)$0.00005-/event
Enterprise$2,000+/month

Categories

Analytics › Rank #94
Analytics › Rank #40
A/B Testing › Rank #5
Feature Management › Rank #3

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The PostHog web analytics tool is 7 times more popular than Open Web Analytics.
Total websites

Market share

Analytics

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

PostHog is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Germany, while Open Web Analytics is more popular in Costa Rica.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
France
Netherlands
Canada
India
Australia
Brazil
Spain

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

PostHog is more popular than Open Web Analytics in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Internet Services
Software/Hardware
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Real Estate
Health
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
youjizz.com
#735
#18,632
#89,339
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Name
Rank
#1,016
#2,242
#2,267
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See also

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