[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":90},["ShallowReactive",2],{"seo-verification":3,"marketplace-app-en-analytics-plausible":6},{"google":4,"bing":5},"EycwPY2XMyTkVzas3n1ygeNJFGAH513qrMjfDljzsMQ","",{"key":7,"data":8},"marketplace-app-en-analytics-plausible",{"slug":9,"slugs":10,"categorySlugs":11,"name":15,"description":16,"phase":17,"unavailableReason":18,"docsUrl":19,"logo":20,"github":21,"tagline":22,"longDescription":23,"features":24,"useCases":31,"steps":41,"faq":54,"specs":73,"compatibleOs":82,"relatedApps":83,"relatedPosts":84,"category":85},"analytics-plausible",{"fr":9,"en":9,"ar":9,"es":9},{"fr":12,"en":12,"ar":13,"es":14},"analytics","التحليلات-والجمهور","analitica-y-audiencia","Plausible","Clean, cookie-free and GDPR-compliant analytics — a clear single-page dashboard.",1,null,"https:\u002F\u002Fservorbit.com\u002Fblog\u002Fhow-to-host-plausible-analytics-on-a-vps","https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.jsdelivr.net\u002Fgh\u002Fselfhst\u002Ficons\u002Fsvg\u002Fplausible.svg","https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fplausible\u002Fanalytics","Clean, cookie-free and GDPR-compliant analytics — everything fits on a single dashboard.","Plausible makes an unusual bet: everything that matters should fit on one page. Traffic sources, top pages, countries, devices, goals and conversion rates are read at a glance, with no tree of reports to navigate. It is a deliberate design choice, and it is what makes the tool readable by a whole team rather than only by the person who configured it.\n\nMeasurement is cookie-free and uses no persistent identifier: no visitor is tracked from one site to the next, and no personal data is stored. On your own VPS, the community edition relies on PostgreSQL for configuration and ClickHouse for events — that column-oriented store is what keeps dashboards instant at high volume, and it is also why 2 GB of RAM are required at start-up.",[25,26,27,28,29,30],"A single dashboard: traffic, sources, pages, countries, devices and goals","Cookie-free and with no persistent identifier — no consent banner required","Tracking script of roughly 1 KB, the lightest in the catalogue","Goals, custom events and revenue attribution","Weekly or monthly email reports, plus a public sharing link","UTM tags read natively for campaign tracking",[32,35,38],{"title":33,"body":34},"Product or marketing team","Show one dashboard the whole team can read, with no training and no custom report configuration.",{"title":36,"body":37},"High-traffic site","ClickHouse absorbs high event volumes while keeping the display instant, where a classic relational database starts to struggle.",{"title":39,"body":40},"Strict compliance requirement","No cookies, no personal data, hosted on your own server in Europe: the processing chain documents itself in three lines.",[42,45,48,51],{"title":43,"body":44},"Create the VPS","Plan for 2 GB RAM and 2 vCPU minimum: Plausible runs three containers (application, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse). The \"Plausible\" template installs the whole set in one step.",{"title":46,"body":47},"Set the public address","Before first start-up, the instance's public address must be the one you will actually reach it on: it is what builds sharing links and email reports.",{"title":49,"body":50},"Create the account and first site","Open your domain on port 8000. The community edition creates the administrator account on first access, then asks for the domain you want to measure.",{"title":52,"body":53},"Add the script and verify","Paste the provided script before \u003C\u002Fhead>, then visit a page from another browser: the real-time visitor counter should react within seconds.",[55,58,61,64,67,70],{"q":56,"a":57},"Why does Plausible ask for 2 GB of RAM when Umami runs on 512 MB?","Because the stack is not the same. Plausible stores events in ClickHouse, a column-oriented database that reserves memory to keep aggregations instant at high volume. Umami writes to PostgreSQL alone. It is a trade-off: more RAM at rest, but dashboards that do not slow down as traffic grows.",{"q":59,"a":60},"Do I need a cookie banner with Plausible?","Plausible sets no cookies and keeps no identifier that would let it recognise a visitor across visits. On that basis, audience measurement does not require consent. The legal assessment for your site remains yours, especially if other trackers are present on the page.",{"q":62,"a":63},"Is the self-hosted version cut down compared with the paid offering?","The community edition carries the core of the tool: dashboard, goals, custom events, sharing. Some features of the hosted offering arrive later or are not carried over. In exchange, you do not pay per page view.",{"q":65,"a":66},"Can I migrate my data from Google Analytics?","No — there is no GA4 import, and the data models differ too much for a reconciliation to be trustworthy. Common practice is to run both in parallel for a few weeks, then switch GA4 off and keep its export as an archive.",{"q":68,"a":69},"What is the practical difference with Umami?","Both measure without cookies and read on one page. Plausible goes further on campaign analysis, revenue attribution and email reports, and holds up better under load thanks to ClickHouse. Umami is leaner and starts on a VPS four times smaller. For a blog, Umami is enough; for a commercial site running campaigns, Plausible is the better fit.",{"q":71,"a":72},"Are my statistics backed up?","They live in your VPS's PostgreSQL and ClickHouse volumes, covered by your ServOrbit server's automatic backup. For an off-server copy, back up both volumes: PostgreSQL alone does not contain the events.",{"ram":74,"cpu":75,"disk":76,"stack":77,"port":81},"2 Go","2 vCPU","20 Go",[78,79,80],"Docker","PostgreSQL","ClickHouse",8000,[],[],[],{"key":12,"slug":12,"name":86,"objective":87,"icon":88,"color":89},"Analytics & audience","Privacy-friendly website analytics, shared or on your VPS","bar-chart","text-indigo-600 bg-indigo-50",1793820384734]