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GoatCounter
GoatCounter is listed for: web analytics.
Where it stands
3.9 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 1 of 3 signals
- Website health4.4 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
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 GoatCounter yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use GoatCounter?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
- You want a free option. It states: “GoatCounter.com is free for reasonable public usage, such as personal websites or small-to-medium businesses. The page says:…”
Check first
- It sends your content to its servers. Its pages say: “Data is stored on servers at Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland and Germany. The page says: “Data is stored on servers at Hetzner…”
- Its pages do not state: pricing, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Web analytics
Measured signals
4.4 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from GoatCounter'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 358 ms.
- Security4.3 / 53 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, x-content-type-options, x-frame-options).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency3 / 5Links a privacy policy; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
Not enough discussion yet: 9 classified comments from 2 threads. We need at least 12 from 2 threads.
- Positive
“It provides rationale for why GoatCounter exists and comments about _why not_ other solutions like Fathom, Open Web Analytics, KISSS, Ackee, Countly, Analysing log files, Google Analytics, statcounter, Simple Analytics,…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“I've used goatcounter on my site for more than a year and have been very happy with it. I don't need anything complex- I want to know if any pages are getting big traffic and it's nice to know which external links are…”
Read in the thread
Threads: GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data (2020, 136 comments) · GoatCounter: Open-source hosted/self-hosted web analytics (2023, 47 comments)
- Free tier
- GoatCounter.com is free for reasonable public usage, such as personal websites or small-to-medium businesses. The page says: “GoatCounter.com is currently offered for free for reasonable public usage. Running your personal website or small-to-medium business on it is fine, but sending millions of pageviews/day isn’t.”
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- An email address is required to use the GoatCounter.com service. The page says: “An email address is required to use the GoatCounter.com service.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Data is stored on servers at Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland and Germany. The page says: “Data is stored on servers at Hetzner Online GmbH in Finland and Germany.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home, Privacy. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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Tasks and scores
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