Simple Analytics vs Clycyo: Minimalism vs One Timeline
Simple Analytics keeps analytics deliberately small. Clycyo joins behavior, performance, and revenue. Which philosophy fits your site?
Simple Analytics is named with complete sincerity: the product believes analytics became a surveillance industry and the cure is radical reduction — count visits, list referrers, stop there. Clycyo shares the diagnosis (cookieless, banner-free, EU-first) but draws the opposite conclusion about the cure: the problem was collecting data about people, not collecting context about outcomes. That philosophical split decides which tool fits you.
The shared foundation
- No cookies, no fingerprinting, no consent banner needed.
- EU-rooted privacy posture you can defend to a DPO in one sentence.
- Lightweight scripts, clean dashboards, humane pricing.
Where reduction stops answering
Simple Analytics gives you traffic, sources, pages, and (modest) events. The questions that begin where that ends:
- Which channel produced the customers who paid — not just the visits? (Needs first-touch persistence + identity + revenue events.)
- Did Tuesday's deploy make the signup page slower, and did that cost conversions? (Needs load time per visit.)
- What did the user who reported the bug actually experience? (Needs the journey timeline with errors in sequence.)
None of these require knowing who strangers are. They require joining your own first-party signals on one record — which is Clycyo's entire design thesis.
Feature comparison
| Capability | Simple Analytics | Clycyo |
|---|---|---|
| Cookieless pageviews & sources | Yes | Yes |
| Custom events | Basic | Rich properties |
| identify() / journeys | No (by philosophy) | Yes |
| Revenue attribution | No | Built in |
| Load time / Vitals / errors per visit | No | Yes |
| Public dashboard | Yes | Yes — ours is live |
| Free tier | Trial | 10k events/mo, forever |
Choose by the job
A blog, a portfolio, a site whose success metric is 'people came': Simple Analytics is a calm, principled choice you will never regret. A product with signups and invoices: the minimalist dashboard will eventually leave your most expensive questions unanswered, and bolting other tools around it costs more — in scripts and sanity — than one joined record. The deeper version of this argument, applied across the whole category, is in our 2026 privacy-tools roundup, where we say nice things about competitors with a straight face.