About SiteStats.dev
We're building the analytics platform we wish existed for our own side projects.
Quick Answer: SiteStats.dev is a privacy-first analytics SaaS founded in 2025 by developers who wanted website traffic insights without cookies, consent banners, or sending visitor data to third-party ad networks. We focus on simplicity, speed, and full GDPR compliance by default.
What is our mission?
Our mission is simple: make great website analytics available to everyone, without trading away your visitors' privacy. We believe you should be able to understand your traffic without setting up consent banners, configuring elaborate Google Analytics properties, or shipping a 50KB tracking script that hurts your Core Web Vitals.
Why did we build SiteStats.dev?
We kept paying the Google Analytics tax on every side project — three days of GDPR setup, a clunky dashboard built for enterprise marketers, and a script that ad blockers happily strip out anyway. After the third project, we decided to build something better. SiteStats.dev started as an internal tool, and now it powers analytics for thousands of sites.
What do we believe in?
- Privacy by default. No cookies, no fingerprinting, no PII. Your visitors stay anonymous.
- Simplicity. One dashboard. One snippet. The numbers you actually look at, no more.
- Speed. A 2KB tracker. Fast pages. Fast dashboards. Real-time data without polling overhead.
- Transparency. Honest pricing, no dark patterns, and you own your data — exportable any time.
What is SiteStats.dev built with?
We're a developer-first product, so the stack matters. SiteStats.dev runs on PHP 8 over MariaDB, served by OpenLiteSpeed on AlmaLinux. The frontend is hand-written vanilla JavaScript with Chart.js for the charts. We use MaxMind GeoLite2 for IP-to-location lookups (locally, no external API calls). The whole thing is hosted on a single tuned VPS — fast, cheap, and predictable.
Who are we?
SiteStats.dev is built and maintained by a small, distributed team of independent developers and designers. We answer support tickets ourselves, so when you write in, you get a real person who built the product — not a chatbot.