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Open Web Analytics (OWA): sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open-source web analytics framework intended as an alternative to commercial tools such as Google Analytics. The server is written in PHP and tracks visitors, page views, e-commerce transactions and custom actions across several websites from a single instance. It includes a JavaScript tracker, customisable reports, heatmaps, Domstream session recordings, a REST API and a WordPress plugin. You install and operate OWA yourself.

OWA is released under the GNU GPL (version 2 or later) and was created by Peter Adams, who holds the copyright. The sources name no commercial provider with its own cloud service: you host the software yourself, so the data stays on your own infrastructure, in the region you choose. No external service provider then has access to the data; security, updates and GDPR compliance rest entirely with your own organisation. The sources state no country of establishment for the project.

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Sovereignty score
69 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-3100
    No hosting in Europe (self-hosted)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-390
    Self-hostable: encryption keys under your own control
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-680
    Open source: low switching costs
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-665
    Source code auditable, forkable and self-hostable

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked October 6, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hostingSelf-hosted, e.g. in self-hosted (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-sourceYesVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websiteopenwebanalytics.com ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Open Web Analytics (OWA)

The European alternatives to Open Web Analytics (OWA) come from our knowledge base of over 6,200 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with Open Web Analytics (OWA)

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

Open Web Analytics (OWA) hosts data outside the EU (self-hosted). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is open source. You can audit the source code, self-host the software and keep the encryption keys under your own control. Switching is easier because data and software are not tied to a single party.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Open Web Analytics (OWA) together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to Open Web Analytics (OWA)?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Open Web Analytics (OWA) include Ackee, Adjust and Alceris. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to Open Web Analytics (OWA)?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to Open Web Analytics (OWA) include Ackee, Aptabase and Counter. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is Open Web Analytics (OWA) GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is headquartered in US and hosts data in self-hosted. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on October 6, 2026.

Sources

Public sources used in the latest check of this record.

Compliance evidence

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Digital sovereignty in Analytics

Analytics: Business intelligence, data visualisation, web analytics. In this category the choice of vendor determines who has legal access to your data, where that data lives and how easily you can switch later.

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