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A simpler Google Analytics alternative.
Google Analytics is powerful, but most teams only need clear visitor insights, realtime activity, referrers, pages, and privacy-friendly reporting. OpenRevenue keeps that workflow simple.
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AI AssistantAsk questions about your traffic in plain words and get instant answers with charts. | ||
Weekly digest reportA summary of visitors, top sources, and trends delivered to your inbox every week. | ||
Unlimited websitesTrack every site you own under one account, with no per-website fees. | ||
Real-time analyticsWatch active visitors, pageviews, and countries update live, second by second. | ||
GDPR-friendly trackingPrivacy-friendly web analytics that stores no personal data about your visitors. | ||
Cookieless trackingNo tracking cookies means no cookie consent banner on your website. | ||
Funnel analysisMap your conversion steps and see exactly where visitors drop off. | ||
Visitor-level dataFollow individual visitor journeys from first pageview to conversion. | ||
Identify usersConnect sessions to your own user IDs to recognize logged-in customers. | ||
API accessQuery stats, pages, referrers, and countries programmatically over a REST API. | ||
Starting priceThe monthly price of the entry paid plan. | $9/mo | Free* |
Script sizeThe weight of the tracking snippet your visitors download. Lighter keeps pages fast. | < 1 KB | ~45 KB |
Events includedMonthly pageviews and custom events included in the starting plan. | 10K+ | ~* |
* Competitor details are simplified for quick comparison and may vary by setup, account configuration, and plan.
What changes after moving from GA4
A dashboard everyone reads
Your team sees traffic, sources, and events at a glance instead of navigating GA4 menus and explorations.
Faster conversion fixes
Funnels and visitor journeys make it obvious where conversions change and what to fix first.
Decisions tied to revenue
Revenue attribution connects marketing work to actual sales, so product and marketing pull in the same direction.
Everything you get with OpenRevenue
Traffic, visitor journeys, revenue, and performance in one dashboard your whole team can read.
Revenue Attribution
Connect every sale back to the page, source, and campaign that earned it, so you know exactly where to invest.
Explore revenue attributionVisitor Profile
Follow each visitor from first click to conversion, with full journeys, sessions, and the moments that mattered.
See a live profileNo cookie banners
OpenRevenue is cookieless and privacy-friendly by default. No consent banners and GDPR-compliant out of the box.
Go cookielessMonitor traffic from AI tools
See how much traffic ChatGPT,
Claude,
Perplexity and other AI assistants send your way.
Global Audience Insights
See the countries, cities, and channels your audience arrives from, and spot new markets as they emerge.
Watch traffic livePerformance
Track Core Web Vitals on every real page load and catch slow pages before they cost you visitors.
Check your vitalsExperience score
Funnels
Map the steps that matter, see exactly where visitors drop off, and fix the leaks that cost you conversions.
Find your drop-offsAI Assistant
Ask questions about your traffic in plain words and get instant answers, charts, and filters built for you.
Ask your data anything
Ready when you are.
Ask anything about your traffic, or start with one of these.
OpenRevenue vs Google Analytics, in detail
The substance behind the checkmarks, one topic at a time.
Data policy
Google Analytics is free because the data pays for it. Your visitors' behavior feeds the wider Google advertising machine, which is exactly why GA4 keeps you wrestling with consent banners and regional privacy rulings.
OpenRevenue does the opposite. Your visitors' data stays private, is never sold or shared, and our script never follows people across websites. You keep full control and can delete anything you have sent us at any time.
Installation
Installing GA4 means choosing between gtag and Google Tag Manager, wiring up streams and properties, and often paying someone to do it. There is a reason so many courses exist just to set it up.
OpenRevenue is one script tag. Paste it, deploy, and your first pageviews appear in the dashboard minutes later. No configuration, no tag manager, no marketing cookies.
Script size
The GA4 tag weighs roughly 45 KB and often loads alongside Tag Manager, which your visitors pay for on every page load. Script weight affects your Core Web Vitals, and those affect your SEO rankings.
OpenRevenue's tracker is under 1 KB, many times lighter. Your pages stay fast, your vitals stay green, and analytics stops being a performance tax.
Complexity
Installing GA4 is only half the battle. Between explorations, custom definitions, and ever-moving menus, most teams use a fraction of it and still need training to find a simple number.
OpenRevenue is one dashboard your whole team can read at a glance. Visitors, sources, pages, funnels, and revenue all live one click away, and the AI assistant answers the rest in plain words.
Customer support
Google does not offer real support for free GA4 accounts. When something breaks or a number looks wrong, your options are forums and documentation.
OpenRevenue comes with human support from the people who build the product. Questions about setup, events, or a confusing chart get real answers, and priority support is included on paid plans.
It's all about the details
Simple does not mean shallow. OpenRevenue includes the features growing sites actually use: conversion funnels, individual visitor journeys, realtime view of the traffic, Core Web Vitals from real visitors, and revenue attribution.
GA4 gathers everything and organizes little. OpenRevenue turns the same signals into clear, personalized insights, so you get ideas to act on instead of just numbers.
How to choose between Google Analytics and OpenRevenue
Choose Google Analytics if your team already lives in GA4 and depends on the wider Google ads ecosystem.
Choose OpenRevenue if you want clear answers from your traffic without the setup, training, and cookie banners.
Choose Google Analytics if...
- You rely on GA-native reporting workflows.
- You have technical resources for setup and upkeep.
- You need deep Google Ads integration.
Choose OpenRevenue if...
- You want clear analytics without GA4 complexity.
- You care about privacy-friendly, cookieless defaults.
- You need funnels, visitor profiles, and revenue context.
- You value fast setup and fast decisions.
Fast migration plan
- 1Add the OpenRevenue script to your site.
- 2Map your core GA4 goals to OpenRevenue events.
- 3Run both tools briefly, then finalize the switch.
Questions about setup or migrating?
Reach out at support@openrevenue.com and we will help you move over. Done-for-you setup and migration help is included.
Frequently asked questions
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