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We now have 700 paying subscribers!

We're now on exactly 700 paying subscribers for Plausible Analytics!

It took us 364 days to reach the first 100 subscribers, and we've now gone from 100 to 700 in 120 days. We went from 600 to 700 subscribers in 15 days. Crazy and unbelievable! Thank you all for your support!

My co-founder Uku has now published our August development recap. Here's what we added to the product over the last month:

Page drilldowns

We now have the page drilldown feature. It gives so much more depth to the dashboard, especially when combined with the referrer filter. This sort of analysis is required for more advanced use-cases.

Hash mode for SPAs

Plausible works with most modern SPA frameworks out of the box. Our tracking script listens for the pushState event and triggers a pageview automatically. However, some front-end frameworks use the hash part of the URL for navigation. In that case, the tracker should listen to the hashchange event to trigger pageviews. If you're using a frontend framework that uses the URL hash for routing, you need to take an extra step to install the hash-based tracker instead of the default one.

Other details from our changelog

  • Added a quick switcher to make it easier to jump between sites when you have more than one. The dropdown also includes a link to site settings to make navigation easier.

  • Added metric to see total conversions alongside unique conversions.

  • Show real counts alongside percentages (applies to screen sizes, browsers, operating systems and countries).

  • Fixed an encoding issue with page URLs, goal names, and utm_source.

  • Added direct traffic and other dark traffic sources as “Direct / None” in the Top Sources report.

You can view our live demo with the latest additions.

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    Great work Marko! 🙌🏻

    I appreciate every single Maker/Company who is working on more ethical products besides the Google monopoly.

    Plausible Analytics is an incredible product. I love the super structured UI, the minimal dashboard which displays all the most important anayltics, it is lightweight, and open-source. You have done everything right. 🤩

    The fact that you actually care about the privacy of your users, and the people who get tracked, make Plausible Analytics such a great product.

    I wish you all the best for the future!

    Small sidenote: I featured Plausible Analytics in my weekly newsletter Creativerly you can check out the issue here: Creativerly #80

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      Thanks Philipp for the kind words and for featuring us in your newsletter! Appreciate your support!

  2. 2

    Hello Marko,

    Thank you so much for sharing your journey. I have been hearing about Plausible on various founder networks but I never noticed that the product is actually open source, MIT licensed. I would be reading up more about this since I have chosen to build a commercial open source business model.

    My main reasons are that dwata, my product has full access to the business database. So it is a practical decision for the core software being open source and most importantly on-premise. I do not even have a SaaS option. I will go for Community Edition (open source) and Enterprise Edition or Features based pricing.

    Links:

    Thanks for such an inspiration, Cheers!

    1. 1

      Thank you Sumit for the kind words!

      Great to see more open source projects trying to experiment with the different funding models. I wrote this post on the topic of paying rent with your open source recently: https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-funding

      Good luck with your project!

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        Thanks Marko for sharing the post; will read it tonight.

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          You're welcome! Hope you find it useful!

  3. 2

    Great work guys, really like the pricing model too https://plausible.io/#pricing

  4. 2

    that's pretty baller, great job!

  5. 2

    I'm one of the 700 and very happy with it! Great job guys!

    1. 1

      That's great to hear KP and thanks for your support!

  6. 2

    Amazing Congratulation for 701+

  7. 2

    Congratulations, I was one of the 700 yesterday 😀.

    Only got it on one site so far but plan on adding my other sites to Plausible as well in the not too distant future

    1. 1

      Sounds good Chris! Thanks for your support!

  8. 2

    Wow. This is fantastic Marko. Keep it up!

    What’s the thing that converts most visitors to users for you?

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      Thanks Marc! In terms of referral sources, it is Google organic search. You can see here the list of referral sources who have sent us trial signups https://plausible.io/plausible.io?period=6mo&goal=Signup

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        Nice one! I really love that shareable dash by the way. So great :)

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          Happy to hear that! :)

  9. 2

    Congrats! - I think you might have just won your 701st paying subscriber 😉

    1. 1

      Thanks Jake, that's good to hear! We're on 701 now :)

  10. 2

    Wow, congratulations. You wrote in your blog post that product hunt and indiehackers are your main sources of traffic. How do you get traffic from Indiehackers? Is it from regular updates like these? Curious to know :)

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      Thanks Abhishek! From several ways: Milestone updates like these, Indie Hackers original posts that we publish, blog posts that we share, people that link and share our URL in the different threads etc.

      You can see the full list of our Indie Hackers referral sources for a better idea: https://plausible.io/plausible.io/referrers/indiehackers.com?period=12mo&source=indiehackers.com

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        Thanks, this is an amazing resource. Will check out your previous blog posts too when I go back from office today :)

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          You're welcome! Hope you get some inspiration!

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