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Clicky vs Fathom Analytics: What are the differences?
Developers describe Clicky as "Real time web analytics". Clicky Web Analytics gives bloggers and smaller web sites a more personal understanding of their visitors. Clicky has various features that helps stand it apart from the competition specifically Spy and RSS feeds that allow web site owners to get live information about their visitors. On the other hand, Fathom Analytics is detailed as "Simple, open source website analytics library". Fathom tracks users on a website (without collecting personal data) and give you a non-nerdy breakdown of your top content and top referrers. It does so with user-centric rights and privacy, and without selling, sharing or giving away the data you collect. It's a simple and easy to use for website owners at any technical level.
Clicky and Fathom Analytics can be primarily classified as "General Analytics" tools.
Fathom Analytics is an open source tool with 5.63K GitHub stars and 228 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Fathom Analytics's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Clicky
- Easy setup10
- Tons of detail6
- Cheap5
- Many features5
Pros of Fathom Analytics
- Self hosted2
- Privacy friendly1