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This is still not very affordable for my use case. My small network of sites does around 400.000 pageviews per day. $120 per month is pretty steep for something I look at only a couple of times per month.

Ever since GA4 and the whole cookie banner thing I'm looking for something that is GDPR compliant, has basic functionality and is cheap.

But every time I look it comes down to self hosting.

Plausible relies on Clickhouse and I don't know Clickhouse. Umami relies on Mysql or Postgres with a pretty inefficient data scheme that cripples performance with the scale of my data.

Can't these services be made a lot cheaper (and faster) by doing data sampling like Google Analytics did?



> by doing data sampling like Google Analytics did?

You can always conditionally include the tracker. So, you can include it with a 10% chance, then you will still get stats, but sampled.

Doing this, you might miss some important events/sessions though.


Google is free since they sell your data.

Clickhouse is expensive, compute on scale is expensive, development is expensive etc. Sounds like your best bet is to do self-hosting




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