Monthly cost
$9+ / mo
$9+/mo 10k pageviews
Popularity
4/5
LLM knowledge
4/5
Difficulty
Easy
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What Plausible is good at
Strengths
- +No cookies, no banners
- +Open source
- +Tiny script
Tradeoffs
- −Fewer features than GA
- −Paid
Coding-agent prompt
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You're working with Plausible. Lightweight, privacy-friendly, cookie-less analytics. Best practices: - Lean on: no cookies, no banners - Lean on: open source - Lean on: tiny script Things to watch for: - Watch out for: fewer features than ga - Watch out for: paid General guidance: - Canonical docs: https://plausible.io — 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 Plausible
In one line: Lightweight, cookie-less web analytics that respects privacy.
Plausible shows the basics — page views, referrers, devices — without cookies or personal data. Small script, no banner needed.
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