Compare Analyzati and Pulse by Ciphera on capabilities, jurisdiction, assurance, and fit for European buyers.
Both listed as alternatives to: Fathom Analytics, Google Analytics
Spain· Web Analytics
Needs review
Shortlist when you want Spanish/EU-legal SaaS web analytics with cookie-free daily uniques, city geo, AI referral views, and a public DPA—without self-hosting. Skip when you need open source, on-prem, multi-day retention/cohorts, or certified ISO/SOC evidence; consider Plausible Analytics or Matomo instead.
Belgium· Web Analytics
Needs review
Shortlist Pulse when you want cookieless traffic analytics plus uptime and Lighthouse in one Belgian-operated, Swiss-hosted SaaS and can accept a closed managed backend. Skip when you need full self-hosting or GA-style user-level history; consider Plausible Analytics or Simple Analytics instead.
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| Feature | Analyzati | Pulse by Ciphera |
|---|---|---|
| Country of origin | Spain | Belgium |
| Category | Web Analytics | Web Analytics |
| Open source | No | Yes |
| Self-hosted | No | No |
| Headquarters | Spain | Belgium |
| Legal entity | Incorporated in Barcelona, Spain (exact legal name not published on pages reviewed) | Ciphera BV |
| Governing law | Spain / EU (GDPR referenced; confirm governing law clause in Terms) | Belgian law (GDPR); Swiss FADP for infrastructure location |
| US parent / control | No known US parent | No known US parent |
| CLOUD Act exposure (indicative) | Medium | Low |
| EU-hosted status | Not listed | Partial |
| Hosting / residency | Visitor/app data: AWS in Paris (vendor). Marketing site: Namecheap in Amsterdam. Backups described as EU. Other subprocessors named in privacy materials: Stripe (payments), AWS (email), Freshworks (support), hCaptcha (registration). | Primary compute and object storage on Exoscale in Switzerland (Zurich). Encrypted backups and domain registration via Infomaniak (Switzerland). CDN/DNS/DDoS via Bunny (Slovenia HQ, global edge for transient IPs). Payments via Mollie (Netherlands). GitHub (US) for public source code only, per Trust page. |
| Summary | Spanish cookie-free web analytics SaaS: real-time traffic, city-level geo, AI referral sources, and event tracking without cookies, stored IPs, or fingerprints. | Cookie-free web analytics with traffic, funnels, uptime and Lighthouse checks in one Belgian-operated, Swiss-hosted dashboard. |
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| At a glance | Analyzati | Pulse by Ciphera |
|---|---|---|
| HQ / entity | Barcelona, Spain (EU entity claimed; exact registry name not on public pages reviewed) | Not listed |
| Product type | Hosted web analytics SaaS | Not listed |
| Open source | No | Not listed |
| Self-host | No | Not listed |
| App hosting | AWS, Paris (vendor claim) | Not listed |
| Commercial model | Freemium + pageview / site-count tiers | Free Hobby tier; paid plans by traffic scale |
| DPA | Public; accepted via Terms of Service | Not listed |
| HQ | Not listed | Diegem, Belgium (Ciphera BV) |
| Legal entity | Not listed | Ciphera BV (KBO/BCE 1013.721.660) |
| Founded | Not listed | 18 September 2024 (CBE) |
| Primary data region | Not listed | Switzerland (Exoscale Zurich) |
| License | Not listed | AGPL-3.0 client; managed backend closed |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Yes (vendor claim: no cookies, no fingerprinting) |
| Data residency regions | Not listed | Switzerland (Exoscale primary; Infomaniak backups) |
| Key capabilities | Analyzati | Pulse by Ciphera |
|---|---|---|
| Cookie-free tracking | Yes | Not listed |
| EU entity (Spain) | Yes | Not listed |
| App on AWS Paris | Yes | Not listed |
| Public DPA | Yes | Not listed |
| AI referral insights | Yes | Not listed |
| SaaS only | Yes | Not listed |
| EU-operated | Not listed | Yes |
| Cookieless | Not listed | Yes |
| Open-source client | Not listed | Yes |
| Swiss-hosted data | Not listed | Yes |
| No analytics cookies | Not listed | Yes |
Cookie-free uniques with daily rotating salt
Counts daily unique visitors by hashing IP + User-Agent + domain with a salt that is destroyed every 24 hours. No cookies, localStorage, or device-persistent IDs; raw IP and full UA are not stored. Trade-off: no multi-day retention or new-vs-returning series.
City-level geo without retained IPs
Derives continent, country, region, and city for maps and rankings from the request IP, then discards the IP. Useful for market mix reporting when you do not need ISP- or coordinate-level precision.
AI referral and channel acquisition views
Breaks down how visitors arrive—search, referring sites, and AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude—so content teams can see discovery outside classic SEO referrers.
Real-time dashboard, events, export, and API
Live visitor activity, page performance, device/browser/OS stats, custom events and campaigns, weekly email reports, data export, and API access on published plans. Integrations include a WordPress plugin and Google Tag Manager snippet placement.
Public B2B DPA with processor role
A published Data Processing Agreement (effective August 2022) treats Analyzati as processor and the customer as controller for visitor measurement. Acceptance is tied to product use under the Terms of Service rather than a bespoke countersignature workflow.
Cookieless traffic dashboard
Pageviews, unique-visitor estimates, referrers, UTM campaigns, device or browser splits, and country-level geo from a single script tag, without cookies or fingerprinting according to Ciphera's privacy docs.
Journeys and conversion funnels
Step-by-step path columns and multi-step funnels with drop-off analysis, filterable by page, country, device, or referrer for privacy-preserving conversion debugging.
Uptime monitors with alert routes
Built-in uptime checks with downtime and recovery alerts to email, Slack, Discord, or a webhook, so availability sits beside traffic in one console.
Daily Lighthouse and Core Web Vitals
Scheduled mobile and desktop Lighthouse runs with performance, accessibility, best-practices, SEO scores, and Core Web Vitals trends without a separate RUM product.
Inspectable AGPL client and read API
Dashboard and tracking script are AGPL-3.0 on GitHub; Ciphera also documents a public read API, CLI, and export paths while keeping the managed backend closed.
| Assurance & compliance | Analyzati | Pulse by Ciphera |
|---|---|---|
| Independent security / no-logs audit | Not found No public third-party audit PDF or no-logs attestation found on official pages reviewed. | Not found Trust page states no independent audit yet; Tessera self-audit published; independent audit planned. |
| ISO 27001 | Not found No ISO 27001 certificate claim located on homepage, privacy, or DPA pages. | Not found Ciphera explicitly states it holds no ISO 27001 certification. |
| SOC 2 / SOC 3 | Not found No SOC 2/3 report claim found on public trust materials. | Not found Ciphera explicitly states it holds no SOC 2 certification. |
| GDPR / EU data protection | Vendor claimed EU entity (Barcelona); public GDPR/PECR/CCPA compliance pages; anonymisation design documented; controller/processor roles in DPA. | Vendor claimed Belgian controller; privacy policy describes GDPR/FADP bases and Pulse processor role. Not legal advice. |
| US CLOUD Act exposure (indicative) | Partial Spanish/EU vendor with no known US parent, but application hosting on AWS (Paris) and US-group subprocessors (Stripe, Freshworks, AWS email, hCaptcha). Residency ≠ ownership. Not legal advice. | Partial EU (Belgian) entity with no known US parent; primary hosts are European (Exoscale, Infomaniak, Bunny, Mollie). Residual paths: GitHub (US) for source code only; Bunny global edge for transient IPs. Indicative only, not legal advice. |
| Data processing agreement (B2B) | Vendor claimed Public DPA effective 18 Aug 2022; vendor says acceptance is automatic via product use / ToS—no separate signature required. | On request / NDA Privacy policy: DPA available on request at privacy@ciphera.net for Pulse processor relationships. |
| EU AI Act | Not applicable Product reports AI *referral traffic*; it is not marketed as a high-risk AI system provider. | Not applicable Web analytics product; not an AI system product page. |
| Considerations & known limitations | Analyzati | Pulse by Ciphera |
|---|---|---|
| AWS and US-group subprocessors | Medium Measurement app is on AWS Paris; account path also uses Stripe, Freshworks, AWS email, and hCaptcha. EU regions reduce some transfer friction but do not erase US-group provider diligence for many public-sector and bank questionnaires. | Not listed |
| No public ISO/SOC or independent audit | Medium Security claims rely on vendor documentation (HTTPS, hashing, firewalls, backups). Organisations with mandatory cert evidence will need vendor outreach or a different shortlist. | Not listed |
| No multi-day visitor identity | Low Daily salt rotation blocks persistent uniques. Expect gaps vs Google Analytics for returning users, frequency, and retention—by design. | Not listed |
| SaaS lock-in / no self-host | Low No self-host edition found. Exit requires export/API migration to another tool; confirm export completeness in a trial. | Not listed |
| Exact registry name not on marketing pages | Low Vendor states Barcelona incorporation but public pages reviewed did not display a full Spanish company registration string—collect CIF/NIF and full legal name during contracting. | Not listed |
| Managed backend is not open source | Not listed | Medium You can audit the browser script and dashboard code, but not the operated ingestion and storage service. Procurement that requires full-stack self-host or full server auditability should look elsewhere. |
| No ISO/SOC or independent audit yet | Not listed | Medium Ciphera publishes threat models, a warrant canary, and a subprocessor list, but explicitly has no ISO 27001 or SOC 2 and no completed independent audit. Enterprise security reviews will need questionnaires and a signed DPA. |
| Primary data residency is Switzerland, not EU/EEA | Not listed | Low Swiss adequacy covers many GDPR transfer questions, but policies that hard-require EU/EEA datacenter soil will classify this as partial rather than EU-hosted. |
| Marketing vs privacy wording conflicts | Not listed | Low Product FAQ pages disagree on whether custom events ship today and whether a DPA is needed. Prefer privacy@ and the privacy policy for legal commitments until Ciphera aligns the FAQs. |
When: You need open-source analytics you can self-host and audit
Consider: Plausible Analytics (self-host option) or Matomo
Analyzati is SaaS-only with no public source release found.
When: You want a comparable cookie-free European SaaS peer for side-by-side trials
Consider: Plausible Analytics or Simple Analytics
Compare AI-referrer and geo depth, DPA wording, and hosting/subprocessor lists in each trial.
When: You need full-stack product analytics and advertising linkage
Consider: Google Analytics (incumbent) or a dedicated product analytics suite
Analyzati deliberately collects a minimal metric set and does not sell ad-tech profiles.
When: You need a mature EU cookieless analytics product with an official full-stack self-host option
Consider: Plausible Analytics
Plausible (Estonia) is the common self-host plus SaaS peer; Pulse keeps the backend managed-only.
When: You want a minimal Dutch cookieless counter without uptime or Lighthouse bundles
Consider: Simple Analytics
Closer peer for strictly analytics SaaS; Pulse differentiates with ops-style panels.
When: You need enterprise analytics with strong EU residency controls and heavier compliance packaging
Consider: Piwik PRO or Friendly Analytics
Heavier Matomo-class or Swiss-hosted peers when Pulse's startup assurance set is too thin.