Why I stopped using Google Analytics (and what I use instead)
Google Analytics is free. It's also 13KB of JavaScript, requires cookie consent banners, makes your privacy policy a nightmare, and shows you 47 reports when you only need 5.
Here's what most website owners actually need to know:
How many people visited today
Where they came from
Which pages they looked at
What country/device they're on
Whether they clicked the thing you wanted them to click
That's it. That's the whole list.
I built PureAnalytics around this idea. One script (2.5KB). One dashboard. Zero cookies. GDPR-compliant by default because we don't collect personal data in the first place.
No consent banners cluttering your site. No data being shipped to ad networks. No 6-hour certification course just to read a traffic report.
If you run a blog, small business site, or SaaS landing page — you probably don't need Google Analytics. You need something that respects your visitors and gives you the numbers without the noise.
That's what we built.
