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Analytics without the surveillance.

The open-source alternative to Google Analytics — built in Belgium, hosted in the EU.

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The Pulse dashboard for ciphera.net — 30 days of real visitor, pageview and engagement data
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Cookie-free
Open source
GDPR compliant
5 KB script

01 · Product

Everything, nothing you don't need.

Funnels, journeys, reports and a live dashboard — every feature answers a question about your traffic without costing your visitors their privacy.

Dashboard

Your traffic, at a glance.

Get a clear, real-time overview of your website's performance without the clutter of traditional analytics tools.

  • Live visitor count with real-time updates
  • Hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly trends
  • Referrer sources and UTM campaign tracking
  • Country-level geographic breakdown
The live Pulse dashboard for ciphera.net — a 7-day view of the visitor trend, top pages and referrers

Visitors

Everything you need to know about your visitors.

Understand where your traffic comes from, what content resonates, and how visitors interact with your site — all without compromising their privacy.

  • Top pages ranked by views and unique visitors
  • Referrer breakdown with source attribution
  • Browser, OS, and device analytics
  • Peak hours heatmap for optimal publishing
Pulse audience panel for ciphera.net, live data — MapPulse audience panel for ciphera.net, live data — CountriesPulse audience panel for ciphera.net, live data — Top pagesPulse audience panel for ciphera.net, live data — ReferrersPulse audience panel for ciphera.net, live data — Browsers

Journeys

See the paths visitors take.

Follow real navigation flows step by step — where visitors enter, where they go next, and where they leave.

  • Step-by-step path columns from any entry point
  • Drop-off between every step
  • Filter by page, country, device, or referrer
  • Configurable depth and path count
  • Column and flow views
Pulse journeys for ciphera.net, live data — ColumnsPulse journeys for ciphera.net, live data — Flow

Performance

Performance monitoring built in.

Lighthouse scores and Core Web Vitals for your site, tracked daily — no separate tooling, no extra tab.

  • Daily Lighthouse checks, mobile and desktop
  • Performance, accessibility, best-practices and SEO scores
  • Core Web Vitals — LCP, CLS, TBT and more
  • Page-load filmstrip timeline
  • Score trend over time
Pulse Performance for ciphera.net — desktop Lighthouse scores, page-load filmstrip and Core Web Vitals

Script

One script tag. That's it.

No npm packages, no build steps, no configuration files. Add a single line to your HTML and start collecting privacy-respecting analytics instantly.

  • 5 KB gzipped — 25× lighter than Google Analytics
  • Async loading with defer — never blocks rendering
  • Works with any framework or static site
Installation guide

02 · Compare

How Pulse compares.

See how privacy-first analytics stacks up against the tracking-heavy status quo.

PulsevsGoogle Analytics
Starting price
Pulse
Free Hobby tier; paid plans — see pricing
Google Analytics
Free (GA4)
Cookies
Pulse
None
Google Analytics
Yes, by default
Consent banner (EU)
Pulse
Not needed
Google Analytics
Required in the EU
Open source
Pulse
Frontend + client open (AGPL)
Google Analytics
No — closed source
Data residency
Pulse
Switzerland / EU
Google Analytics
Google infrastructure (global / US)
Company jurisdiction
Pulse
Belgium (EU)
Google Analytics
United States (Google LLC)

Google Analytics 4 is free and deeply integrated with Google Ads. Pulse trades that ecosystem for cookieless tracking, no consent banner, an EU company and Swiss/EU data residency — the things that make GA hard to run cleanly in Europe.

Full comparisonvs Plausiblevs Matomovs Fathomvs Simple Analyticsvs Umami

03 · Works with your stack

Your framework is already supported.

One script tag, the same install everywhere — dedicated guides for 29 frameworks, 75 integrations in all.

Pulse has dedicated install guides for Next.js, React, Vue.js, Angular, Svelte, Nuxt, Remix, Astro, Solid.js, Qwik, Preact, HTMX, Ember.js, Laravel, Django, Ruby on Rails, Flask, Express, Gatsby, Hugo, Eleventy, Jekyll, Docusaurus, VitePress, Hexo, MkDocs, Gridsome, Sphinx, Flutter.

See all 75 integrations

04 · FAQ

Frequently asked questions.

Pulse is a privacy-first website analytics platform by Ciphera. It tracks pageviews, unique visitors, referrers, and geographic data without using cookies, fingerprinting, or collecting any personal data. It's a privacy-respecting alternative to Google Analytics.

Yes, Pulse is free for personal websites. We plan to offer a paid Pro tier for teams and high-traffic sites in the future, but the free tier will always be available.

Pulse is not a drop-in replacement for Google Analytics — it's fundamentally different by design. There are no accounts, no cross-site identity and no history beyond a calendar month, so GA's user-level exports have nothing to map onto and can't be imported. However, you can run both side by side during a transition period.

The Pulse client — dashboard and tracking script — are open source and available on GitHub. You can inspect every line of code that runs on your site and verify our privacy claims.

Pulse shares the privacy-first philosophy with Plausible and Fathom, but it's built on Swiss infrastructure with Swiss data protection laws. The client — dashboard and tracking script — are open source, and Pulse is part of the Ciphera ecosystem, giving you a unified privacy-first stack.

05 · Get started

Start counting in minutes.

Paste one 5 KB script tag and watch the first pageview arrive — free Hobby tier included, no cookies to configure, nothing to consent to.

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Cookie-free · Open source · GDPR compliant