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Simple Analytics: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Simple Analytics is a privacy-oriented website analytics service for teams that want traffic, referrer, event and campaign insights without analytics cookies, IP address storage or persistent visitor profiles. It tracks pageviews, referrers, UTM campaigns, goals, funnels and custom events, with automatic tracking of outbound links, email clicks and common file downloads. Further features are server-side events, an Events Explorer for viewing and exporting events, an API for dashboards and exports, and an AI assistant. Setup takes a single script tag, and the service is delivered as SaaS.

Simple Analytics B.V. is a company in the Netherlands and presents itself as EU-owned. According to the vendor, data is stored in the Netherlands and is not transferred outside the EU. Infrastructure comes from Worldstream and Leaseweb, spread across providers for redundancy. The vendor states that it sets no cookies, and it publishes its data collection practices and subprocessors on its website. For a European organisation this means a Dutch vendor under EU law with EU-based hosting.

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Sovereignty score

71 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-2100
Headquartered in the EU: European law applies
Data residency SOV-3100
EU-only hosting
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-360
Key management with a European vendor
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, runtime with the vendor

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 July 2, 2026

Headquarters	NL (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty model	Vendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hosting	EUVerified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Compliance documents	4 published, see belowVendor-stated
Hosting signal	WorldStream - WorldStream B.V., NL (NL)Technically measured
Category	Analytics
Type	Product
Website	simpleanalytics.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to Simple Analytics

The European alternatives to Simple Analytics come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 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 Simple Analytics

Simple Analytics is headquartered in NL and therefore falls under European law: the GDPR, NIS2 and the Data Act. No foreign legislation can compel access to your data.

Data is hosted exclusively in the EU, so Simple Analytics scores best on data residency.

Simple Analytics is closed source and hosted by the vendor. The encryption keys and the runtime sit with the vendor and switching requires data migration. Ask about bring-your-own-key, export options and open standards.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs Simple Analytics 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 Simple Analytics?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to Simple Analytics 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 Simple Analytics?

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

Is Simple Analytics GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Simple Analytics is headquartered in NL (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Simple Analytics an EU-sovereign choice in its own right; the EU alternatives on this page are comparable European tools.

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 July 2, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice during the full audit of June and July 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

The links below point to the vendor's own public documents. We only record what we found: a missing link means "not found publicly", not "not compliant".

Data Processing Agreement (DPA): simpleanalytics.com/data-collection
Subprocessor list: simpleanalytics.com/data-collection
Security page / trust center: simpleanalytics.com/security
EU hosting documented: simpleanalytics.com/data-collection

Provenance of the links above:Vendor-stated

Links checked on September 22, 2026.

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