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VisitorStats: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

VisitorStats.co is a lightweight web analytics service with a focus on privacy. It shows real-time visitors, an overview of site statistics, page behaviour, acquisition channels, location down to city level, and devices, browsers and operating systems. You can also record custom events and conversions and export statistics as CSV. According to the vendor, the tracking script is under 1 KB and uses no IP tracking, fingerprinting or cookies, and the vendor states that it meets GDPR, CCPA and PECR requirements. VisitorStats.co is delivered as SaaS.

An external directory (SourceForge) places the company in the United States; the vendor's own website states no company location, no hosting region and no open-source licence. For a European organisation this means the storage location and the vendor's legal position should be clarified before use. If the vendor is a US company, this is a CLOUD Act signal even where data is processed in Europe.

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Sovereignty score
17 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign
  • Jurisdiction SOV-210
    Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
  • Data residency SOV-30
    No hosting in Europe (US)
  • Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-320
    Key management with a non-European vendor
  • Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
    Closed source: switching requires data migration
  • Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-615
    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 October 6, 2026
HeadquartersUS (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decisionOnly for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Sovereignty modelVendor-hosted (non-EU)Verified by hand
Data hostingUSVerified by hand
Open-sourceNoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliantYesVendor-stated
CategoryAnalytics
TypeProduct
Websitevisitorstats.co ↗

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Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to VisitorStats

The European alternatives to VisitorStats 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 VisitorStats

VisitorStats 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.

VisitorStats hosts data outside the EU (US). Personal data therefore leaves the EU, which requires a transfer mechanism under the GDPR and pulls the data residency score down.

VisitorStats 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 VisitorStats 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 VisitorStats?

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

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

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

VisitorStats is headquartered in US and hosts data in US. 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

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Compliance evidence

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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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