Featherweight

Free. Forever. Genuinely.

Free privacy analytics.
500k pageviews a month.
Your history, kept forever.

From the team that's been counting the web since 1999. Featherweight is what the team behind StatCounter built when we asked: what would real, free, privacy-first analytics look like — not a trial, not a teaser, but something that stays free?

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No card. No trial. No catch. EU-hosted in Dublin.

What you get

A free tier built to stay free.

Four things make Featherweight different. Each one is structural — built into how the product works, not a promotion that quietly expires.

01

Free forever, 500,000 pageviews a month.

More than Plausible's $19 plan and Fathom's $15 plan combined. No card on file. No countdown. The free tier is the product, not the door to the product.

02

Your history, kept as long as your account is.

Unlimited retention on summary reports — top pages, referrers, sources, goals, custom events, pageviews over time. Year-on-year comparisons in 2031 work the same as they do today.

03

The last 30 days, always ready to investigate.

Detailed event data is buffered for every account, free or paid. The moment you upgrade, the previous 30 days is instantly filterable — no empty dashboard, no "wait and see."

04

Privacy by design, every tier.

No cookies. No cross-site tracking. No PII. A daily-rotating hash that we delete every 24 hours. EU-only infrastructure in Dublin, on bare metal we own and operate.

How it compares

Read across the row.

The shape of the free tier is the part that's hard to copy. We've spent 25 years figuring out what counting the web actually costs — and where it doesn't.

  Free pageviews / mo Detail retention Summary retention Card required
Featherweight 500,000 Last 30 days (free)
Extended (paid)		 Unlimited while account is active No
Plausible 0 — 30-day trial 3–5 years (paid only) Same as detail Yes, for paid
Fathom 0 — 30-day trial Forever (paid only, while active) Same as detail Yes, for paid
Cloudflare Web Analytics Unlimited ~6 months Same as detail Cloudflare account
Google Analytics 4 Unlimited 14 months (auto-delete) Same as detail Google account

Why this works

Ingest was never the expensive part.

Twenty-five years at StatCounter taught us that the cost forcing every privacy-analytics product to charge wasn't bandwidth, and it wasn't compute on incoming pageviews. It was storing every event forever and serving filtered reports on top of them.

Featherweight separates the two. Free accounts get the rollups — small, cheap, retained as long as you're using the product. Paid accounts get the raw event store and the UI to slice it. Every account, free or paid, has the last 30 days of detailed activity buffered, so upgrading is instantly useful.

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Live demo

This page is being counted right now.

Every page on this site loads featherweight.js with tracker a2ae1429-0c5e-459a-b38c-c694417c45eb. Click around the pricing and architecture pages, then open the dashboard to see your visit appear.

From the browser console you can also fire a custom event:

featherweight('signup', { plan: 'pro' })

Open the live dashboard →

Start counting

Free is genuinely free.

No credit card. No trial. No surprise downgrade in 30 days. Add the script, see your first visitors, decide later whether you ever need anything more.

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