Comparison

Metricward and Plausible

Plausible is a good product with a genuine EU privacy story. This page is about where the two stop overlapping, which is the moment you ask a product question rather than a traffic question.

Keep Plausible if

You need traffic, sources, top pages and goals, and nothing beyond that.
You want the smallest possible thing on the page and the simplest possible bill.
You value a mature, stable product over a newer one, which is a completely reasonable preference.
Your team would not use funnels or cohorts even if they were there.

Look at Metricward when

You need to know which step of a flow loses people, and how many of them.
You need cohort retention rather than a returning-visitor count.
You want to segment on your own event properties, not just the built-in dimensions.
You want a renamed property to surface as a flagged event in a debugger rather than as a flat chart.
You want the raw events out as CSV, not only the summaries.

Side by side

	Metricward	Plausible
EU hosting	Yes	Yes
Cookieless by default	Yes	Yes
Script size	Under 2KB gzipped	About 1KB gzipped
Funnels	Multi-step, with drop-off in people	Basic goal funnels
Retention cohorts	Cohort grid by day, week or month	Not available
Custom property segments	Any property, on every screen	Custom properties on some reports
Event debugger	Live, showing every pipeline decision	Not available
Tracking plan validation	Yes	Not available
Maturity	New	Established, years of production use
Free tier	10,000 events a month	Trial only

If Plausible answers your questions, it will keep answering them and you should stay. Metricward exists for the team whose next question is which step, which cohort, which property.

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