Question 1

Where Skomi differs from Simple Analytics

Accepted Answer

It measures websites; Skomi also measures apps. Simple Analytics publishes no mobile or desktop SDK. If the thing you need to understand is software people install, this is not a comparison. It is two different products.
Behaviour comes in the same subscription. Heatmaps, session recordings and a feedback widget are Skomi modules, metered from the same allowance the analytics uses. With Simple Analytics each of those is somebody else's product, and the numbers will not join up.
One place for the whole picture. The interesting question is usually a join: did the campaign that brought the most visitors also bring the ones who abandoned the checkout? Two tools cannot answer that without an identifier they share, and neither of them has one.

Question 2

What Simple Analytics does better

Accepted Answer

Five sites on the free plan, against Skomi's one. If you look after a handful of small sites (a portfolio, a few side projects, a client or two) Simple Analytics watches all of them for nothing and Skomi asks you to pay at the second. That is not a close call; it is the reason to choose it.
It does one thing. No modules, no credits, no app SDKs, no behaviour capture. If web traffic is the whole of what you want measured, a smaller product is easier to hold in your head and harder to get wrong.
Data that never leaves one country. "Never leaves the Netherlands" is a stronger and more checkable promise than "in the EU", and for some buyers that specificity is the entire procurement conversation.

Question 3

Which to choose

Accepted Answer

Choose Simple Analytics if you measure websites only, run more sites than Skomi's free plan covers, or want the narrowest product on this page.
Choose Skomi if you also have an app to measure, want heatmaps, recordings or feedback without a second subscription, or want acquisition and behaviour to join up.

	Skomi	Simple Analytics
Works without a cookie bannerOut of the box, with no configuration.	Yes	Yes
Stores something on the visitor's deviceA cookie or an id in local storage. The law treats them the same.	No	No
Counts every visit, without samplingBoth Google and Cloudflare sample adaptively, so a small site is not sampled at all. Hotjar does not sample; it stops, at a number of sessions set by the plan.	Yes	Not checked
Keeps your full history for as long as you are a customerSkomi does not: it deletes analytics once the plan's window has passed, and the window each plan sells is on the pricing page. A cell reads "Not checked" where the product publishes no figure we could verify. Plausible documents "5+ years" for Enterprise but states nothing for its standard plans, and Cloudflare documents no retention period at all.	No	No
Sites	Yes	Yes
Mobile and desktop apps	Yes	No
Heatmaps	Yes	No
Session recordings	Yes	No
Feedback boards	Yes	No
Reports where your traffic comes from	Yes	Yes
Data stored in the EU	Yes	Yes
Open source	No	Not checked
Can be self-hosted	No	Not checked
Surveys and user interviews	No	No
More than one site on the free planSkomi's free plan carries one site, which is a real reason to pick something else if you look after several small ones. Google and Cloudflare read "Not checked" because how many sites their free tiers cover was not verified. That they HAVE a free tier is the row above.	No	Yes
Free tierSkomi's is the Hobby plan: one site, no card.	Yes	Yes

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