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Overview
Plausible Analytics is a privacy-first web analytics platform for page views, acquisition, campaigns, events, and conversions without relying on cookies. It is available as a managed Cloud service and a self-hostable Community Edition.
Features and best fit
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Key features
See core traffic and acquisition metrics in one dashboard
Inspect visitors, page views, referrers, campaigns, devices, and locations in a focused interface, including real-time traffic.
Sources: [2]
Measure outcomes with events, goals, and funnels
Custom events and properties support goals, conversions, revenue attribution, and funnel analysis, with optional tracking for outbound links, forms, downloads, and other interactions.
Sources: [2]
Best fit
Fits teams prioritizing site insights over advertising-oriented tracking
It is relevant when website teams want useful traffic analytics with a smaller configuration surface and without cookie-based advertising profiles.
Sources: [2]
Before adoption
Cloud and Community Edition differ in features and release cadence
The README describes Community Edition as a long-term release published roughly twice per year, without some Cloud premium features, advanced bot filtering, or premium support.
Sources: [2]
Self-hosting is delivered through the separate Community Edition repository
plausible/community-edition contains the supported Docker Compose setup. Operators are responsible for PostgreSQL and ClickHouse operations, backups, security, capacity, and upgrades.
Sources: [4]
Affected v3 deployments should include the v3.2.1 security fix
v3.2.1 removes a publicly exposed /storybook endpoint involved in a remote-code-execution vulnerability. Deployments on affected versions listed in the release notes should upgrade to v3.2.1 or later.
Sources: [3]
Official sources
- [1]plausible/analytics repository(2026-09-30)
- [2]Plausible Analytics README(2026-09-30)
- [3]Plausible CE v3.2.1 release(2026-09-30)
- [4]Plausible Community Edition README(2026-09-30)
- [5]Plausible AGPL license(2026-09-30)
Supplemental curator note
Plausible focuses on a simpler analytics workflow and privacy-oriented measurement compared with large ad-tech analytics suites. Self-hosting uses the separate Community Edition repository, and v3.2.1 is a security release that removes the vulnerable /storybook endpoint from affected v3 deployments.
Try it in 3 steps
- 1
Clone Community Edition v3.2.1
Pin the self-hosting setup to v3.2.1, which includes the published security fix.
git clone -b v3.2.1 --single-branch https://github.com/plausible/community-edition plausible-ce && cd plausible-ce - 2
Set a local URL and secret key
Create the local evaluation environment with a randomly generated SECRET_KEY_BASE.
printf 'BASE_URL=http://localhost:8000\nSECRET_KEY_BASE=%s\nHTTP_PORT=80\n' "$(openssl rand -base64 48)" > .env - 3
Expose the port and start the stack
Start Plausible CE, PostgreSQL, and ClickHouse, then open http://localhost:8000 and create the first user.
printf 'services:\n plausible:\n ports:\n - 8000:80\n' > compose.override.yml && docker compose up -d
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- analytics
- analytics-dashboard
- clickhouse
- elixir
- google-analytics
- marketing
- open-source-analytics
- phoenix
- plausible-analytics
- postgresql
- privacy
- privacy-friendly
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