Among 11 makers' products we track that are built with Django, here's what they chose for web analytics — each counted from a live-product source.
Cookie-free dashboard or full marketing suite. Cookie-free tools show pageviews, referrers, UTM campaigns and simple goals on one page and usually need no consent banner. Google Analytics is free and goes much deeper into campaigns and ads, but sets cookies, so EU visitors need a consent banner and some of them are never counted.
Plausible Analytics1Fathom Analytics1Counts are live products with a source, not market share; a product using two options counts in both.
Best forFree, deep campaign and audience reporting tied to Google Ads and Search Console.
Trade-offSets cookies, so EU visitors need a consent banner and some refuse to be counted; reports are complex for simple questions.
11 of the 11 Django products here · free tier
Plausible AnalyticsCookie-free dashboardBest forOne page of traffic numbers with no cookie banner, with funnels and revenue goals on higher plans.
Trade-offNo free cloud plan after the 30-day trial; custom events count toward the pageview tier.
1 of the 11 Django products here · open source
Best forA cookie-free dashboard with up to 50 sites on every plan.
Trade-offNo free plan, and the trial is 7 days with a card; custom events count toward the pageview tier.
1 of the 11 Django products here
Also real options for web analytics, not seen among these Django products yet: Umami, Cloudflare Web Analytics.