Ditching Google Analytics: Deploying Plausible for Total GDPR Compliance

The End of Google Analytics

Installing Google Analytics on a website in 2026 is an active liability. Not only does it slow down page load times globally, but you are also required by GDPR, CCPA, and PECR to deploy intrusive "cookie consent banners." These banners actively harm your UI, reduce your conversion rates, and frustrate users.

Furthermore, Google Analytics 4 (GA4) has become incredibly bloated, forcing startups to hire dedicated data analysts just to understand their basic web traffic.

Plausible Analytics: The Lightweight Alternative

Plausible Analytics is an open-source, absolutely gorgeous, and lightweight web analytics protocol. The script is under 1KB, which dramatically improves your SEO Core Web Vitals. But most importantly:

• No Cookies: Plausible does not use cookies and does not track personal data.
• No Consent Banners Needed: Because of the privacy-first architecture, you do not need to prompt users with annoying European GDPR cookie banners.
• Beautiful Dashboard: You get all the metrics you actually care about—unique visitors, bounce rates, goal conversions—on a single, lightning-fast page.

Self-Hosting Plausible on Ofclock

While Plausible offers a great cloud plan, many enterprise and B2B SaaS companies require that analytical data never leaves their proprietary infrastructure. Plausible is built heavily on Elixir, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse databases. Manually deploying this stack in a production environment is complex.

Deploying Plausible on Ofclock bypasses this completely. With our 1-click Docker orchestration, we instantly spin up your ClickHouse analytics databases and connect them automatically to the Plausible dashboard, fully secured with automated Let's Encrypt TLS certificates.

Speed up your site, respect your users' privacy, and own your marketing data with Ofclock today.

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