EU Sovereignty Score
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Statcounter: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

Statcounter is a web analytics service that shows how visitors use a website. After you insert a small piece of tracking code, it provides a live visitor feed, a summary dashboard, individual visitor paths, visitor labels and alerts, heatmaps and Session Replay. An API is available, along with mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows, and installation guides cover many website platforms. It is delivered as a hosted service.

Statcounter lists a postal address in Dublin, Ireland, and its terms name Dublin as the venue for disputes. Its legal pages do not name a legal entity or a parent company. It sets one cookie to distinguish new from returning visitors. Statcounter describes itself as an anonymous tracker and argues that IP addresses are generally not personal data for its users, which is its own position; an option to mask the last octet of IP addresses is available. Its legal pages do not state where data is stored or processed, so ask the vendor for the data location and subprocessors before use.

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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
HeadquartersIE (EU)Verified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingEUVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
Hosting signalCLOUDFLARENET - Cloudflare, Inc., US (US)Technically measured
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websitestatcounter.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 Statcounter

The European alternatives to Statcounter 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 Statcounter

Statcounter is headquartered in IE 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 Statcounter scores best on data residency.

Statcounter 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 Statcounter 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 Statcounter?

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

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

Is Statcounter GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

Statcounter is headquartered in IE (EU) and hosts data in EU. That makes Statcounter 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".

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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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