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DatascaleOpen Analytics

Live · Plausible CE · EU-hosted

We track without cookies. Here's the proof.

datascale.de runs on Plausible Community Edition, self-hosted on Hetzner in Germany. No cookies, no IP storage, no consent banner required. And because we mean it, the dashboard is public: this is exactly what we see.

analytics.datascale.de · no cookies · no consent banner · EU servers

datascale.de

live · 7 on the site right now

Sample data. The Plausible API is not reachable right now.

Visitors

3,074

Pageviews

7,070

Visit duration

2:22 min

Bounce rate

38 %

cookies set

0

Top pages

  1. Homepage1,842
  2. /leistungen/612
  3. /ressourcen/tracking-check/398
  4. /blog/287
  5. /ressourcen/198
  6. /kontakt/152
  7. /integrations/134

Top sources

  1. Direct1,620
  2. Google1,284
  3. LinkedIn472
  4. DuckDuckGo218
  5. GitHub142
  6. Bing98
  7. Reddit64
  8. Hacker News41

Traffic from AI assistants

2.1 %Share of all visitors+0.6 percentage points vs. the previous range

  1. ChatGPT48
  2. Perplexity26
  3. Gemini12
  4. Claude10

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, You.com, Phind. A lower bound: many assistants send no referrer, and that share lands under Direct.

Devices

  • Desktop2,851 · 68 %
  • Mobile1,187 · 28 %
  • Tablet180 · 4 %

Weekly rhythm

Avg. visitors per weekday

Countries

  1. 🇩🇪 Germany2,614
  2. 🇦🇹 Austria412
  3. 🇨🇭 Switzerland318
  4. 🇳🇱 Netherlands184
  5. 🇺🇸 United States162
  6. 🇫🇷 France121

Unfiltered, incl. bot and datacenter traffic. We deliberately don't filter.

Plausible Community Edition · self-hosted on Hetzner in Falkenstein · no cookies, no US cloud, no personal data.unfiltered, fresh from the database on every load

Why we publish this

Verifiable, not claimed.

Cookie-free is workable

This site sets not a single cookie and needs no consent banner. Anyone claiming analytics is impossible without tracking cookies can check the numbers here.

Numbers we use ourselves

These are the same figures our own decisions run on, bad days and the high direct share included.

Not a standard recipe

For client projects we build pragmatically by use case: GA4, server-side GTM, Consent Mode, BigQuery, Meta CAPI, BI or Plausible. EU-first, but not dogmatic.

Our setup

How we measure cookie-free

Cookieless, full coverage

Cookie-based analytics under a GDPR-compliant CMP usually requires explicit consent, which means losing 30–50 % of your data depending on audience. Plausible CE doesn't set cookies at all; it identifies visitors via a daily-rotating, hashed combination of user-agent + IP. No personal identification, no consent needed, full coverage.

Self-hosted in the EU

Plausible Cloud is partially EU-hosted, but running Community Edition on our own infrastructure gives us full control: every request stays on our Hetzner server in Falkenstein, no DPA with a SaaS vendor, database backups under our own custody.

No personal data collected

No session IDs, no demographics. Interest profiles and remarketing lists never get built in the first place. We see which pages get visited, where traffic comes from, and the rough geo-region. That's it. Enough for our needs, and for 95 % of websites.

Loads despite adblockers

This dashboard is server-rendered, and the period switcher only talks to datascale.de. No request to analytics.datascale.de for uBlock, Brave or a corporate proxy to block. The numbers come straight from our database, fresh on every page load. The same logic we use to harden tracking against adblock loss, server-side.

Our website stack

Deliberately lean.

Four components, all in the EU, all replaceable. A setup that only works with five SaaS tools is not a setup, it is a dependency chain.

Browse the integrations catalog →

AnalyticsPlausible Community Editionself-hosted
Hostingown server, EU regionEU
Consentnot required, no personal data storedn/a
Dashboardpublic at /en/open/public
  • Q01Transparency
    Why is the dashboard public?

    Because cookieless tracking produces no personal data, there's nothing to hide. The public dashboard shows exactly what we see in Plausible, fresh on every page load.

  • Q02Transparency
    Why are bots and datacenter traffic in the dashboard?

    Because we deliberately don't filter. Plausible CE detects bots less aggressively than the Cloud version. Rather than polish the numbers, we show the raw view, bot and datacenter traffic included.

  • Q03Hosting
    What's the difference between Plausible Cloud and Community Edition?

    Plausible Cloud is hosted SaaS, partly EU, partly US CDN. The Community Edition (AGPLv3) runs on your own infrastructure, ours on a Hetzner server in Falkenstein, Germany. Full data custody, no vendor DPA needed.

  • Q04Setup
    Can I build this setup myself?

    Yes. Plausible CE is open source (AGPLv3); the guide lives in the <a href="https://github.com/plausible/community-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Plausible Community Edition repo ↗</a>. We also support setups as part of Measurement &amp; Privacy Engineering.

  • Q05Pricing
    What does a Plausible CE setup cost at Datascale?

    Audit Sprint: €1,490 net, report in 3 working days. One website, one GA4 property, one web GTM container, one CMP, one ads account and up to three conversion paths. Evidence, action plan and a 45-minute review. From the agreed start with complete access and documents. Scope and delivery date are agreed before commissioning. Implementation is separate, with no follow-up obligation.

GDPR analytics

The setup that fits your legal position.

Plausible, Piwik PRO, Matomo or GA4: the answer depends on your data depth, not on our opinion. The calculator gives a first direction.

GDPR Stack Calculator 30-minute intro