Web Analytics · Comparison
Clicky vs. Pirsch Analytics
Clicky and Pirsch Analytics compared across Company facts, Pricing, Analytics capabilities, Privacy & compliance, Data ownership & deployment and Platform & integrations — every fact sourced and re-verified from each vendor's public material.
Clicky
Real-time, privacy-friendly web analytics with per-visitor tracking and heatmaps.
Pirsch Analytics
Server-side, cookieless web analytics hosted in Germany, built for GDPR compliance.
Company facts
Headquarters
Portland, OR Clicky is a product of Roxr Software, Ltd, headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany Emvi Software GmbH registered at Nickelstraße 1b, 33378 Rheda-Wiedenbrück, Germany.
Employees
7 Roxr Software is a very small team; third-party sources estimate approximately 7 employees.
2 Pirsch is a two-person team: Marvin Blum (backend/infra) and Daniel Schramm (design/UX).
Pricing
Starting Monthly Price (USD)
$9.99 Pro plan at $9.99/month is the entry paid tier.
$6 Standard plan starts at $6/month for 10,000 monthly pageviews (as of June 2026).
Offers Free Tier
Perpetual free plan: 1 site, 3,000 daily pageviews (~90,000/month). Not a trial — it persists after the 21-day premium trial ends.
No perpetual free plan; only a 30-day free trial is offered.
Free Trial Length (Days)
21 days All new accounts get a 21-day free trial of the premium service with full features.
30 days 30-day free trial with no credit card required.
Entry Plan Pageview Limit (Monthly)
900k Pro plan allows 30,000 daily pageviews; Clicky's own docs convert this to ~900,000/month (30,000 × 30) as the soft monthly limit.
10k Standard entry plan includes 10,000 monthly pageviews at $6/month.
Entry Plan Website Limit
10 sites Pro entry plan covers up to 10 websites.
50 sites Standard entry plan covers up to 50 websites.
Analytics capabilities
Real-Time Dashboard
Clicky is built around real-time visitor logs — it shows every visitor and page view as they happen.
Live visitor count and real-time visitor map are core dashboard features.
Custom Event Tracking
Custom events supported via clicky_custom JS object and manual logging API. Both predefined and dynamic goals available.
User-defined custom events supported via JS snippet or server-side API.
Goal / Conversion Tracking
Goals with conversion tracking available on Pro and above via predefined or dynamic goal system.
Conversion goals can be defined against events or pageviews with conversion rate reporting.
Funnels
Funnel analysis supported for predefined goals on Pro plan and above.
Multi-step funnel analysis (up to 8 steps) is available on the Plus plan.
Ecommerce / Revenue Tracking
Revenue tracking via goals: attach monetary values to predefined goal events and report revenue by source.
Revenue tracked via custom events with monetary metadata; Shopify integration available.
Heatmaps
Click heatmaps included, filterable by visitor segment. Requires Pro Plus ($14.99/mo) or higher — not on entry Pro plan.
Heatmaps are not offered; a feature request exists on the forum but is unimplemented.
Privacy & compliance
Cookieless Tracking
Cookieless tracking is the default mode since a March 2022 privacy update — tracking is 100% cookie-free by default; no cookies are set unless the site operator explicitly enables them.
Cookieless by design; uses a daily-rotating fingerprint hash with no browser cookies.
Consent Banner Required
No cookie consent banner required when using default cookieless mode. Clicky is 'privacy-friendly out of the box.'
Pirsch explicitly states no cookie consent banner is needed for its analytics.
GDPR Compliant
Clicky explicitly states GDPR compliance with anonymized-by-default tracking.
Vendor claims GDPR, CCPA, PECR, and Schrems II compliance.
EU Data Residency
Clicky data is stored in the United States (Roxr, Portland OR). EU visitors' data is routed to a London VPS for performance but ultimately stored on US infrastructure.
All analytics data stored on Hetzner servers in Falkenstein, Germany.
Data ownership & deployment
Open Source
Clicky is a proprietary closed-source SaaS product.
Core analytics library is open source (AGPLv3) on GitHub.
License
proprietary Clicky is a closed-source proprietary SaaS product with no open-source edition.
AGPLv3 Core analytics library (pirsch-analytics/pirsch) is licensed under AGPLv3.
Self-Hostable
Clicky is a cloud-only SaaS with no self-hosting or on-premise deployment option.
Self-hosting available via Enterprise License for on-premise deployment.
Data Retention (Months)
48 mo Premium plans retain daily granularity data for 4 years (48 months); older data shifts to monthly-only view.
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Unlimited Data Retention
Data retention is finite: 4-year (48-month) daily granularity for paid plans; no 'forever' retention claim.
Both Standard and Plus plans include unlimited data retention.
Google Analytics Import
No official Google Analytics import. Clicky begins collecting from install date; no documented migration/import path exists.
Official import from Google Analytics (UA and GA4) is documented with step-by-step guide.
Raw Data Export
Stats API supports full data export in JSON, XML, CSV, and PHP formats. Available on paid plans.
Stats API enables full programmatic data retrieval; CSV export and raw exports on request also available.
Platform & integrations
Has API
Documented Stats API available for programmatic data retrieval. Free accounts have limited access; Pro accounts unlock full 366-day range.
RESTful Stats API with no rate limit on statistics endpoints.
Tracking Script Size (KB)
5.1 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
3.5 KB Measured compressed transfer size.
Official WordPress Plugin
The 'Clicky Analytics' WordPress.org plugin is published by third-party developer Alin Marcu (deconf), not by Clicky/Roxr.
Official WordPress plugin published by Emvi Software GmbH on wordpress.org.
Email Reports
Scheduled daily, weekly, or monthly email reports available in PDF, HTML, or plaintext formats. Pro plan and above.
Scheduled weekly and monthly email summary reports are supported.
Public Dashboard Sharing
Viewing Clicky stats requires authentication. Sharing is done via sub-user accounts or a 'private link' — no unauthenticated public dashboard found.
Dashboards can be made public or shared via private access links without requiring viewer accounts.
The verdict
Clicky Best for a free tier plus heatmaps and high page volume
Clicky carries a perpetual free plan (Pirsch offers only a 30-day trial) and includes click heatmaps, which Pirsch does not. Its entry plan also absorbs far more traffic: a ~900k monthly pageview ceiling versus Pirsch's 10k. The trade-off is US-stored data, a 48-month retention cap, and no Google Analytics import.
Full profile Pirsch Analytics Best for EU data residency, open source, and self-hosting
Pirsch stores data on German servers, ships an AGPLv3 open-source core, and can be self-hosted — none of which Clicky offers (it is proprietary, cloud-only, US-stored). It also adds unlimited retention, Google Analytics import, public dashboard sharing, and a lower $6 entry price. Trade-offs: no free tier and no heatmaps.
Full profileSources · 39 verified references
clicky.com pirsch.io zoominfo.com docs.pirsch.io github.com static.getclicky.com + 2 more
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