From 59a70431a168b0b048c56f8acbb45a36090502b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marko Saric <34340819+metmarkosaric@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 07:40:14 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 3d58c1262..e1022e8f7 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/plausible/analytics.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/plausible/analytics) -[Plausible Analytics](https://plausible.io/) is a simple, lightweight, open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. It doesn’t use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. You can [view the live demo of our own website stats](https://plausible.io/plausible.io). +[Plausible Analytics](https://plausible.io/) is a simple, lightweight (< 1 KB), open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics. It doesn’t use cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. You can self-host Plausible or have us run it for you in the Cloud. Here's [the live demo of our own website stats](https://plausible.io/plausible.io). We are completely independent, self-funded and bootstrapped. Made and hosted in the EU 🇪🇺 ![](https://docs.plausible.io/img/plausible-analytics.png) @@ -15,15 +15,15 @@ - **Open website stats**: You have the option to be transparent and open your web analytics to everyone. Your website stats are private by default but you can choose to make them public so anyone with your custom link can view them. - **Define key goals and track conversions**: Set custom events or page URLs as your goals and see how they convert over time to understand and identify the trends that matter. - **Search keywords**: Integrate your dashboard with Google Search Console to get the most accurate reporting on your search keywords. -- **SPA support**: Plausible Analytics is built with modern web frameworks in mind and it works automatically with any pushState based router on the frontend. +- **SPA support**: Plausible is built with modern web frameworks in mind and it works automatically with any pushState based router on the frontend. We also support frameworks that use the URL hash for routing. See [our documentation](https://docs.plausible.io/hash-based-routing). -Interested? [Read more on our website](https://plausible.io) +Interested to learn more? [Read more on our website](https://plausible.io), learn more about the team and the goals of the project on [our about page](https://plausible.io/about) or explore [the documentation](https://docs.plausible.io). ### Can Plausible Analytics be self-hosted? -The purpose of keeping the code open-source is to be transparent with the community about how we collect and process however, we do provide an experimental [docker-based self hosting](./HOSTING.md) setup. Please note that this is still in *alpha* stage and care should be taken while using it for production system. +Yes, Plausible is fully [open source web analytics](https://plausible.io/open-source-website-analytics). We have a free as in beer Plausible Analytics Self-Hosted solution. It’s exactly the same product as our Cloud solution, only the self-hosted version you have to install, host and manage yourself on your own server. Take a look at our [docker-based self hosting](./HOSTING.md) setup. Please note that this is still in *beta* stage and care should be taken while using it for production system. -### Why is Plausible Analytics not free like Google Analytics? +### Why is Plausible Analytics Cloud not free like Google Analytics? Plausible Analytics is an independently owned and actively developed project. To keep the project development going, to stay in business, to continue putting effort into building a better product and to cover our costs, we need to charge a fee.