Sealmetrics compared with other analytics tools
How Sealmetrics compares with GA4, Matomo, Plausible, Fathom, Piwik PRO and Simple Analytics on identifiers, IP handling, data residency, consent and script size.
How Sealmetrics compares with GA4, Matomo, Plausible, Fathom, Piwik PRO and Simple Analytics on identifiers, IP handling, data residency, consent and script size.
Matomo is GPL-licensed and self-hostable, but its cookieless mode hashes the visitor's IP. Sealmetrics doesn't store the IP or build its identifier from it, and keeps analytics data in Dublin.
Sealmetrics t.js measures 1.1 KB on the wire — 12× lighter than the legacy v1 tracker and ~132× lighter than GA4 gtag.js; Matomo and Piwik PRO sit between.