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Frequently asked questions

• What is Simple Analytics best at?

  Privacy taken seriously. Simple Analytics is EU-hosted, sets no cookies, uses no localStorage or fingerprinting, and drops IP addresses entirely; location is derived from the browser timezone. The script covers pages, referrers with UTM tracking, devices, browsers and OS, and goals, custom events and multi-step funnels are included. Pulsetic asks a different question: not how many people visited, but how fast the website was for them and whether it was up at all.

• How much does Simple Analytics cost?

  Paid plans start at €20 per month (about $23) for 100,000 datapoints, billed in euros. There is also a real free plan: 1 user, 5 websites and unlimited pageviews under fair use, but with only 30 days of history and a required badge on your website, plus a 14-day trial of the paid features. Pulsetic starts free too, and $9 a month buys 10,000 RUM pageviews plus 10 uptime monitors and status pages.

• Does Simple Analytics measure page speed or Core Web Vitals?

  No. Simple Analytics has no performance reporting at all: no load times, no Core Web Vitals, no error tracking. Realtime is a basic live-pageviews ticker covering roughly the last 60 seconds. Pulsetic records LCP, CLS, INP, FCP and load time percentiles (p50, p75, p95) from real visits, on every plan.

• Can Simple Analytics tell me when my website is down?

  No. Simple Analytics is analytics only: no uptime monitoring, no alerting, no status pages. During an outage the dashboard just shows traffic dropping. Pulsetic checks your website as often as every 30 seconds from up to 15 regions, and alerts you by email, webhook, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, Telegram, SMS, WhatsApp or phone call.

• Is Pulsetic a drop-in replacement for Simple Analytics?

  No. Pulsetic does not track goals, custom events, funnels or UTM campaigns, so if your work depends on conversion reporting, keep Simple Analytics for it. Both scripts are small and cookieless, so many teams run the two side by side: Simple Analytics for traffic questions, Pulsetic for performance and uptime.

• Does Pulsetic's tracking script use cookies?

  No. Like Simple Analytics, Pulsetic sets no cookies and writes nothing to localStorage. It goes a step further: there is no client-side visitor identifier at all, because Pulsetic does not need to count unique visitors. The script sends up to two small performance beacons per pageview, with no sampling.

• How do the free plans compare?

  They trade different things. Simple Analytics gives you unlimited pageviews under fair use on up to 5 websites, but keeps only 30 days of history and requires a badge on your website. Pulsetic's free plan caps RUM at 1,000 pageviews a month but includes 10 uptime monitors and status pages, keeps 3 months of history, and allows commercial use.

• When should I switch from Simple Analytics to Pulsetic?

  When the questions you are asking change: you care less about how many people visited and more about why the website felt slow, whether Core Web Vitals pass, and who tells you when it goes down. Pulsetic answers those from $9, includes status pages, and has a free plan to start. If you need both sets of answers, the two scripts coexist happily.