Privacy-Friendly Google Analytics Alternatives
Track website visitors in a GDPR-compliant way.
These 3 web analytics solutions keep your visitors’ personal information within the EU.
Legal challenge to Google Analytics
Recent ruling by Austrian Data Inspectorate has found that, by using Google Analytics, a website was illegally sending visitor IP addresses to the United States. IP addresses are regarded as personal information.
In Google Analytics, it is possible to anonymize the visitor’s IP address by dropping its last 3 digits. However, the full IP is still sent to Google before this masking happens. This, according to the Austrian ruling, is illegal.
What are the alternatives?
Piwik Pro
Piwik PRO is a Google Analytics alternative that gives you full control and ownership over your data without sharing it with any 3rd parties.
With Piwik PRO, you comply with regulations all over the world, such as GDPR in the EU, LGPD in Brazil and CCPA in the US.
With enterprise license, you can choose the data storage (e.g. Germany or Sweden) or an on-premises implementation.
With free license, the data is stored in Germany.
The free version of Piwik PRO includes a tag manager and a consent management tool.
Customer data platform is included only in the enterprise version.
Contact us about Piwik PRO licence, implementation and support.
Matomo
Matomo Analytics is an open source web analytics tool that can be used as a SaaS, private cloud or on-premises installation.
It includes a tag manager and features for e.g. cookieless, anonymous tracking, support for data deletion and opt-out.
In addition, IP anonymization and disabling visitor logs allows even more anonymity.
Contact us about Matomo implementation and support.
Google Analytics 4 with server-side tagging and IP cleaning
Google Analytics 4 can be setup on a Google Tag Manager instance running on a proprietary server or EU-based cloud solution.
If the IP address of a user is cleaned at this level, the data can be sent to Google Analytics 4 without sending personal information to Google and, by consequence, to the United States.
Contact us about privacy-friendly GA4 setup with server-side tagging and IP cleaning.
Our services in GDPR-compliant analytics
Tool selection consultation
We will audit your current web analytics setup and needs.
Based on your business priorities, we suggest the best matching privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative for your organization.
Privacy-compliant analytics strategy
We analyze and estimate your future needs for data and present a strategy that balances business needs with legal compliance.
Implementing the privacy-compliant analytics setup
With the help of your developers, we ensure that the chosen web analytics platform will be correctly implemented. We set the platform to track what is relevant for your analytics strategy – but no more.
Visualizing the right metrics
With the setup in place, we facilitate a KPI workshop or two with key stakeholders. The purpose of these workshops is to choose and get commitment to the key metrics to track.
After the workshop(s), we create dashboards to visualize the most relevant data for each stakeholder group, such as the board of directors, marketing and sales. Less is more, to prevent information overload and to encourage the use of data.
On-going support and analysis
The benefits of data emerge from its use in shaping business decisions, marketing strategy and improving the user experience of the website.
We support your team in using the chosen Google Analytics alternative. In addition, we monitor the technical health of the implementation and contribute to analysis and recommendations based on the data.
Why choose us?
Ever since the GDPR legislation took effect in 2018, we have helped our clients to adjust to the changing privacy requirements. As a result, we have developed deep expertice with Matomo, Piwik PRO and Server-Side Tagging.
Seniority
You only deal with seasoned consultants who understand business and marketing.
Experience
Successful implementations of Matomo, Piwik PRO and GTM server-side for demanding private and public sector clients.
Up-to-dateness
We constantly monitor the rulings of European authorities and and will provide marketing and analytics related information to you that your legal is most likely not even fully aware of.
