Love Plausible's simplicity?
Get the same cookieless ethos, plus the "why".
Plausible tells you how many people visited and where they came from — clean, fast, and privacy-first. It doesn't tell you why a specific visitor bounced, whether your checkout page just started throwing React errors, or whether a slow LCP is quietly tanking conversion. MetricTrail keeps the same cookieless, no-banner approach and adds that layer.
Feature by feature
| Feature | MetricTrail | Plausible |
|---|---|---|
| SDK bundle size | < 5 KB | ~1.4 KB |
| Data latency | Real-time, no batch delay | 1–5 seconds |
| React error boundary tracking | Native auto-capture | None |
| Real-user Core Web Vitals (RUM) | Built-in P75 LCP/INP/CLS | None |
| Cookieless / no GDPR banner | 100% compliant by design | 100% compliant by design |
| Individual visitor session timelines | Full journey, event by event | Aggregated reports only |
| Channel ROI & comparative deltas | Built-in (▲ +X%) | Basic referrer list |
| AI-generated insights in plain language | Included on Pro & Scale | None |
When Plausible is actually the right call
To be direct: if all you need is a clean, lightweight pageview counter with zero setup and you don't care about error tracking, Web Vitals, or individual visitor journeys, Plausible's simplicity is genuinely hard to beat — its SDK is smaller than ours. MetricTrail is for the moment right after "how many visited" — when you need to know why they didn't convert.
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