Plausible Analytics

Plausible Analytics is a lightweight, privacy-friendly, open-source alternative to Google Analytics. It doesn’t use cookies and is compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR. The service offers simple, clutter-free web analytics on a single page, eliminating the need for custom reports or extensive training. It also provides features like email/Slack reports, team collaboration, conversion tracking, and integration with Google Search Console.

Software Included

Creating an App using the Control Panel

Click the Deploy to DigitalOcean button to create a Droplet based on this 1-Click App. If you aren’t logged in, this link will prompt you to log in with your DigitalOcean account.

Creating an App using the API

In addition to creating a Droplet from the Plausible Analytics 1-Click App using the control panel, you can also use the DigitalOcean API. As an example, to create a 4GB Plausible Analytics Droplet in the SFO2 region, you can use the following curl command. You need to either save your API access token) to an environment variable or substitute it in the command below.

curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
         -H 'Authorization: Bearer '$TOKEN'' -d \
        '{"name":"choose_a_name","region":"sfo2","size":"s-2vcpu-4gb","image": "plausibleanalyti"}' \
        "https://api.digitalocean.com/v2/droplets"

Getting Started After Deploying Plausible Analytics

Please wait about 5-10 minutes after droplet is created, docker containers initialization requires some time. After ssh is enabled droplet is ready to use.

On your first SSH login to the droplet or launch of the Droplet console of your Plausible Droplet 1-Click, you will be greeted by a Plausible setup script.

The first step is to select option between using personal domain or not

Personal domain:

1. Requirement: Map Domain record to droplet IP
2. Enter domain name
3. Enter admin email, username and password
4. Access the app : https://domain_name

Default:

1. Enter admin email, username and password

2. Access the app: http://droplet_id

3. Plausible admin details are located in /docker/pausible .env file

   cd ..

   cd docker/plausible

   ls -a