Self-hosted alternatives to Simple Analytics

InsightFlare

Cookie-free web analytics with funnels, UTM reports and real-time visitors, hosted in your own Cloudflare account

What a Simple Analytics user would miss

Detailed data is kept for one year unless you add an R2 archive bucket.

What it adds

Data stays in your Cloudflare account, and it adds bot request observation.

• Yes Cookie-free tracking. No cookies; about 3 KB script.
• Yes Dashboard: visits, time on page, bounce. Visitors, pageviews, sessions, bounce rate, average duration.
• Yes Referrer and UTM reports. Referrer, channel and UTM reports.
• Yes Events and goals. Goals and events with properties.
• Yes Robot blocking. User agent and Cloudflare bot score.
• Yes Email reports. Scheduled email notifications via Resend.
• Yes Stats and Export APIs, data export. API v1 with scoped keys and CSV export.
• Yes Public dashboard sharing. Public dashboard sharing.

Sources:github.com/RavelloH/InsightFlare/blob/main/.github/readme/README.en.md

Traks

Cookie-free website analytics with live visitors and history in R2, installed into your account by a web wizard

What a Simple Analytics user would miss

It has no email reports; it covers API and data export only in part; it needs Workers Paid and uses Pipelines and R2 SQL, which its README calls open beta.

What it adds

Data stays in your Cloudflare account, and history is kept in R2.

• Yes Cookie-free tracking. No cookies; one t.js tag.
• Yes Dashboard: visits, time on page, bounce. Visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, average visit duration.
• Yes Referrer and UTM reports. Referrers, UTM fields and an AI sources tab.
• Yes Events and goals. Goals and events with properties.
• Yes Robot blocking. Bots filtered; AI agents reported apart.
• No Email reports. The instance sends no email.
• Partly Stats and Export APIs, data export. API tokens; no CSV export.
• Yes Public dashboard sharing. Public dashboards at /share/<site id>.

Sources:github.com/shivamanupadi/traks#readme

Edgemetry

Cookie-free web analytics for your own sites, built on one Worker and one D1 database sized for the free tier

What a Simple Analytics user would miss

It has no email reports or public dashboard sharing; it covers events and goals and API and data export only in part; its README puts the Workers Free ceiling near 20,000 visits a day.

What it adds

Data stays in your Cloudflare account, and daily rollups are never deleted.

• Yes Cookie-free tracking. No cookies or visitor ID; about 2.1 KB script.
• Yes Dashboard: visits, time on page, bounce. Visitors, pageviews, bounce rate, average time.
• Yes Referrer and UTM reports. Referrer and UTM breakdowns.
• Partly Events and goals. Named events; no goals.
• Yes Robot blocking. Bots dropped before any write.
• No Email reports. Planned on the roadmap.
• Partly Stats and Export APIs, data export. JSON endpoints behind a login.
• No Public dashboard sharing. Share links are on the roadmap.

Sources:github.com/hayaran/Edgemetry#readme