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Fathom Analytics
Privacy-focused website analytics from a sustainable company. A GDPR compliant, Google Analytics alternative.
Where it stands
4.1 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 3 of 3 signals
- Website health5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Facts stated4.2 / 5 · weight 30%
How many of the five facts the tool's own pages state
- Community3.6 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Fathom Analytics yet. Facts checked 2026-11-01. How tests work
Disclosure: agathox makes some of the tools listed here. They are labelled and scored by the same method as every other tool.
Should you use Fathom Analytics?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-01.
A good fit if…
Nothing is clearly stated yet.
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- It needs an account.
Does: Web analytics
Measured signals
5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Fathom Analytics's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 144 ms.
- Security5 / 54 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency5 / 5Links a privacy policy; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.6 / 5 · 12 commenters83% of the 12 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Fathom Analytics; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“These guys have been solving self-hosted digital analytics for years now, and have consistently proven to be one of the best options for real-time digital data tracking, triggering, and analytics. Their qa/schema focus…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“This doesn't come even close to the type of data you can get from Google Analytics. It's nice as a free/open source service, but the power just isn't there. Even piwik/matomo is vastly inferior to what kind of data you…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics (2018, 120 comments) · We Rebuilt Fathom Analytics from the ground up and moved to Laravel Vapor (2019, 26 comments)
- Free tier
- No free plan. Every plan has a 7-day free trial; a card is required to start it and is not charged until the trial ends.
- Paid plan
- Monthly prices by pageviews: $15 (100,000), $25 (200,000), $45 (500,000), $60 (1M), $100 (2M), $140 (5M), $200 (10M), $290 (15M), $380 (20M), $470 (25M); custom above 25M. Yearly option mentioned (2 months free) but yearly prices not stated.
- Signup
- Account registration is needed to start the trial.
- Watermark
- Not applicable.
- Where files go
- EU visitor data is processed on EU infrastructure; some personal data may be transferred outside the EU/EEA under standard contractual clauses. Retention of website visitor data processed for customers is not stated.
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-01. Sources: Pricing, Privacy policy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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