Honest reviews and how-tos for indie operators running 3-30 sites. No sponsored slop.
The cookie banner is a consequence of the scripts you run, and analytics is usually the biggest offender. How cookieless tools count visitors, what CNIL and ICO have said in writing, and which scripts still force a banner.
Every GA alternative wins for a specific shape of operator and is wrong for the rest. Ten tools, what each does best, where each bites, and a decision path that gets you to one answer.
Three Google Analytics alternatives picked apart honestly. Plausible wins on simplicity, Fathom on price-per-pageview, Matomo on feature depth. Here's when each is wrong for you.
GA4 is a tax on your loading time, your privacy posture, and your sanity. Here's the sequence to replace it without losing your audience data.