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Fathom

Privacy-first analytics with a simple UI.

Official site
Monthly cost
$14+ / mo
$14+/mo 100k pageviews
Popularity
3/5
LLM knowledge
3/5
Difficulty
Easy
#low-cost

What Fathom is good at

Strengths
  • +No cookies
  • +Fast script
  • +Simple dashboard
Tradeoffs
  • Paid only
  • Fewer features than GA

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You're working with Fathom. Privacy-first analytics with a simple UI.

Best practices:
- Lean on: no cookies
- Lean on: fast script
- Lean on: simple dashboard

Things to watch for:
- Watch out for: paid only
- Watch out for: fewer features than ga

General guidance:
- Canonical docs: https://usefathom.com — check here before inventing APIs.
- Keep secrets in environment variables, never commit them.
- Write TypeScript where the ecosystem supports it; add types to every exported function.
- Add tests for the critical paths before declaring the task done.
- Read-the-docs is usually faster than guessing — cite the docs page in code comments when you apply a non-obvious pattern.

Beginner's guide to Fathom

In one line: Privacy-first analytics with a clean dashboard.

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