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Swetrix

Privacy-first, open-source web analytics — with error tracking, session replays and performance monitoring built in.
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ℹ️ What is Swetrix?

Swetrix is a cookieless, GDPR-compliant analytics platform — a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics. No cookies, no consent banner, no cross-device tracking, all data anonymised. It's the only thing on the page and the dashboard is fast and real-time.

It goes beyond pageviews: alongside traffic stats you get error tracking, performance monitoring, session replays, funnels and custom events — so you can replace several tools with one.

Open source since 2021, bootstrapped, and funded entirely by our subscribers. Made in the 🇬🇧 UK, hosted on Hetzner in 🇩🇪 Germany.

👉 Try it free on Swetrix Cloud or self-host with Docker.

✨ Features

Cookieless & privacy-first — GDPR-compliant by design, no cookies, anonymised data. (Data Policy)
Lightweight script — a small tracking snippet and a snappy real-time dashboard.
The metrics that matter — top pages, geolocation with map view, devices, traffic sources and UTM campaigns.
Network intelligence (Cloud) — break traffic down by ISP, organisation, usage type (residential / business / hosting / cellular) and connection type to spot bot and datacenter traffic.
Custom events & properties — track conversions, sales or any key action with your own semantics.
Sessions & user flows — understand journeys and behaviour across your site.
Funnels — visualise drop-offs and improve conversion rates.
Performance monitoring — real-user metrics (TTFB, DNS, TLS, render) to keep pages fast.
Error tracking — capture client-side errors with details and aggregated views.
Session replays (Cloud) — replay sessions to see exactly where visitors get stuck.
Sharing & teams — public or password-protected dashboards; invite teammates with roles, or manage access with organisations.
Data portability — export to CSV and access everything via the developer API.
More — alerts & notifications, feature flags, A/B experiments, revenue analytics and Ask AI (Cloud).

Swetrix vs Google Analytics vs Plausible

Swetrix and Plausible are both privacy-first and open source; the main difference is scope — Swetrix bundles error tracking, performance monitoring and session replays into the same product.

	Swetrix	Google Analytics 4	Plausible
Cookieless, no consent banner	✅	❌ cookies + consent	✅
GDPR-compliant, EU-hosted	✅	⚠️ data sent to US	✅
Open source (AGPLv3)	✅	❌	✅
Self-hostable	✅	❌	✅
No data sampling	✅	❌ samples at scale	✅
Real-time dashboard	✅	⚠️ limited	✅
Funnels	✅	✅	✅ (paid plans)
Custom events	✅	✅	✅
Performance monitoring	✅	❌	❌
Error tracking	✅	❌	❌
Session replays	✅ Cloud	❌	❌
Feature flags & A/B experiments	✅ Cloud	❌	❌
Revenue / MRR analytics	✅ Cloud	⚠️ ecommerce setup	❌
Ask AI / chat with your data	✅ Cloud	❌	❌
User profiles / identified users	✅ Cloud	❌	❌

🚀 Get started

Swetrix Cloud (recommended)

We handle hosting, maintenance, backups and a worldwide CDN — you keep full ownership of your data and can export or delete it anytime. GDPR-compliant and hosted in the EU.

Start free → — free trial, then from $19/mo
Live demo →
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Your subscription directly funds maintenance and development of the open-source project.

Self-hosting

Prefer to run it yourself? Swetrix Community Edition (CE) ships the same core analytics: privacy-friendly traffic stats, custom events, sessions, funnels, performance and error tracking. Deploy the API and UI with Docker, connect MySQL / ClickHouse / Redis, and you're live.

Self-hosting guide →

Cloud vs Community Edition

	Swetrix Cloud	Swetrix Community Edition
Infrastructure management	✅ Set up tracking in minutes. We manage server maintenance, upgrades and security for you.	⚠️ You manage servers, installs, upgrades, scaling and backups.
Core analytics (traffic, events, sessions, funnels, performance, errors)	✅ Included	✅ Included
Session replays	✅ Included	⚠️ Cloud only
Advanced features (Revenue, Experiments, AI)	✅ Included	⚠️ Cloud only
Teams & sharing	✅ Organisations, role-based access, direct invites, public and password-protected links.	⚠️ Direct project invites, password-protected links and public projects only.
Alerts & notifications	✅ Email, Slack, Telegram, Discord, webhook, web push	⚠️ Not included
Email reports	✅ Weekly / monthly / quarterly	⚠️ Not included
Geo & network analytics	✅ Premium GeoIP for accurate country / region / city, plus ISP, organisation, usage type and connection type.	⚠️ DB-IP City Lite (country / region / city only); a paid MaxMind or DB-IP database is needed for network breakdowns.
Release schedule	✅ Continuous updates, deployed as soon as ready	ℹ️ Periodic open-source releases; newest features arrive later.
Support	✅ Premium support from the team building Swetrix	⚠️ Community support on Discord and forums.
Costs	✅ Bootstrapped business — your money directly funds Swetrix development.	⚠️ You pay for servers, maintenance, backups and domains.

🛠️ Tech stack

Backend / API — Nest.js, MySQL + TypeORM (accounts, projects), ClickHouse (analytics), Redis (caching).
Frontend — React Router, Tailwind CSS, billboard.js for charts.
Tracking script — packages/tracker-js, the swetrix npm client, TypeScript bundled with rollup.

Email: contact@swetrix.com
Book a call: swetrix.com/book-a-call
Discord: join the community
Twitter: @swetrix
Author: I post about Swetrix and solopreneurship at @andrii_rom

📃 License

Swetrix Community Edition is open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3 (AGPLv3). See the LICENSE file. Source code contributions are subject to the Contributor License Agreement.