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Git-Analytics vs Plausible
Focuses on web traffic analytics, not Git repository metrics
Git-AnalyticsAdvanced analytics for Git repositories — commits, authors, code churn, lines of code, trends, and visual dashboards.
PlausiblePrivacy-friendly, open-source web analyticsWhich to pick
Pick Git-Analytics if you want…
- Git repository visual analytics
- A free, open-source tool
Pick Plausible if you want…
- Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
Side by side
- What it is
- Git-Analytics:Git-Analytics is an open-source tool that visualizes and analyzes Git repository history with dashboards and metrics.
- Plausible:Plausible is a lightweight, privacy-first web analytics service that provides simple, real-time insights without cookies.
- Best for
- Git-Analytics:Git repository visual analytics
- Plausible:Simple, privacy-friendly web analytics
- Who it’s for
- Git-Analytics:Developers and teams who want private, on-prem insights into their codebase.
- Plausible:Website owners, marketers and developers who need easy, GDPR-compliant analytics.
- Pricing
- Git-Analytics:Open source
- Plausible:Freemium
- Open source
- Git-Analytics:Yes, 37 GitHub stars
- Plausible:Yes, 29,274 GitHub stars
- Works with
- Git-Analytics:—
- Plausible:Data Studio Connector, NPM package
Git-Analytics features
- Contributor commit visualization. Shows each author’s commit count in interactive charts.
- Added vs deleted lines per author. Charts code churn by author, highlighting contributions.
- Commit type breakdown. Classifies commits (fix, feature, test, docs, etc.) for deeper analysis.
- Time-based heatmaps. Displays commit activity by hour, day of week, and day of month with drill-down.
- Code size evolution graph. Tracks repository size changes over time.
- Self-hosted deployment. Runs locally with two terminal commands, keeping data private.
Plausible features
- Automatic scroll depth tracking. Tracks scroll depth from 1-100% on every page without any setup.
- AI traffic analytics. Identifies visits from AI assistants like ChatGPT and measures their conversions.
- SEO performance dashboard. Integrates Search Console data to show queries and organic traffic in the dashboard.
- Real-time dashboard. Updates traffic metrics every 30 seconds without needing a page refresh.
- Codeless goals & revenue tracking. Turns any page, download or link click into a goal and tracks revenue automatically.
- Built-in bot filtering. Excludes bots, referrer spam and data-center traffic out of the box.
Git-Analytics vs Plausible FAQ
Is Git-Analytics or Plausible free?+
Git-Analytics is free and open source. Plausible has a free plan and paid plans.
Is Git-Analytics or Plausible open source?+
Yes, both are open source: Git-Analytics (n0rfas/git-analytics on GitHub, MIT license) and Plausible (plausible/analytics on GitHub, AGPL-3.0 license).
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