Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics

Compare Tinylytics and Vantevo Analytics on capabilities, jurisdiction, assurance, and fit for European buyers.

Both listed as alternatives to: Fathom Analytics, Google Analytics

Tinylytics

United Kingdom· Web Analytics

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Shortlist Tinylytics when you want cookieless page analytics plus bundled uptime/SSL/content checks for a handful of small sites, with primary data on Hetzner in Germany and founder support. Skip when you need self-host/open source, formal ISO/SOC packs, or enterprise multi-tenant governance—consider Plausible Analytics or Simple Analytics instead.

Cookieless analyticsPrimary host: Hetzner DEUptime + SSL monitoringBroken-link crawlsSaaS only (no self-host)Solo-founder UK

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Vantevo Analytics

Italy· Web Analytics

Needs review

Shortlist Vantevo when you want Italian-operated, cookie-less site analytics with a flat dashboard, goals/events, optional GA historical import, and beta ecommerce funnel events under a public DPA. Skip when you need multi-day returning-visitor identity, self-hosting/open source, or enterprise-grade public certifications—consider Plausible/Simple Analytics/Pirsch for lighter peers, or Piwik PRO for self-host/compliance-heavy programs.

Cookie-less trackingSingle-dashboard metricsEcommerce events (beta)GA history importPublic DPAItalian operator

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Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics: Snapshot
Feature	Tinylytics	Vantevo Analytics
Country of origin	United Kingdom	Italy
Category	Web Analytics	Web Analytics
Open source	No	No
Self-hosted	No	No
Headquarters	United Kingdom	Italy
Legal entity	Vincent Ritter Consulting (service brand; terms state not separately incorporated yet)	Netforce Srl, Via Po' 136/A, 43124 Parma PR, Italy
Governing law	Not clearly stated as a single governing-law clause on the public terms page; confirm contractually	Italian law (controller established in Italy; Terms governed by place of establishment)
US parent / control	No known US parent	No known US parent
CLOUD Act exposure (indicative)	Medium	Medium
Hosting / residency	Primary analytics storage: Hetzner Falkenstein (Germany). CDN/security: Cloudflare. Error monitoring: Sentry.io. Payments: Paddle and Lemon Squeezy (Stripe company). Optional: IPinfo geo fallback for API hits; opt-in AI Insights via xAI and Google Gemini. No public backup-provider detail beyond that stack.	Vendor claims EU servers and EU backups. Public DPA names OVH Datacenter Roubaix and an AWS datacenter for storage/processing. Additional third parties: Stripe (payments), Crisp (support chat), optional Google Analytics and Search Console APIs when customers connect them.
Summary	Privacy-first cookieless web analytics for small sites, with bundled uptime/SSL checks, content monitoring, events, and founder support—hosted primarily on Hetzner in Germany.	Italian cookie-less web analytics from Netforce Srl (Parma): single-dashboard traffic, events, goals, and ecommerce funnels with EU processing claims and a public DPA.
Tags	analytics privacy gdpr api cookie-free uptime-monitoring indie	analytics privacy gdpr api cookie-less ecommerce italy

At a glance: Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics
At a glance	Tinylytics	Vantevo Analytics
HQ / operator	Vincent Ritter Consulting, United Kingdom	Not listed
Launched	12 June 2023 (live counters on homepage)	Not listed
Primary hosting	Hetzner, Falkenstein, Germany	Not listed
Deployment	Managed SaaS only (not open source, not self-hosted)	Not listed
Commercial model	Paid site-count plans; short trial; no permanent free tier	View-based subscription after free trial
Differentiators	Analytics + uptime/SSL/content monitoring + widgets	Not listed
HQ	Not listed	Parma, Italy (Netforce Srl)
Product type	Not listed	Cookie-less web analytics SaaS
Self-host / OSS	Not listed	No (SaaS only; not open source)
Hosting (public DPA)	Not listed	OVH Roubaix + AWS datacenter; EU processing claims
Notable limit	Not listed	No multi-day returning visitors; max 50 sites/account (Terms)

Key capabilities: Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics
Key capabilities	Tinylytics	Vantevo Analytics
Cookieless analytics	Yes	Not listed
Primary host: Hetzner DE	Yes	Not listed
Uptime + SSL monitoring	Yes	Not listed
Broken-link crawls	Yes	Not listed
SaaS only (no self-host)	Yes	Not listed
Solo-founder UK	Yes	Not listed
Cookie-less tracking	Not listed	Yes
Single-dashboard metrics	Not listed	Yes
Ecommerce events (beta)	Not listed	Yes
GA history import	Not listed	Yes
Public DPA	Not listed	Yes
Italian operator	Not listed	Yes

Tinylytics

Cookie-free unique hits with rotating salts
Page views and unique hits without tracking cookies or fingerprinting. Uniques combine truncated request signals with a 12-hour rotating salt and one-way hash, reset daily at midnight UTC; visitor IPs are not stored in hits. Suited to indie sites that want trendable uniques without consent banners for analytics cookies.
Thunder Clap uptime, SSL, and domain alerts
In-house multi-region health checks (default every 10 minutes) confirm downtime before emailing, plus SSL expiry notices and domain monitoring. Ultra can shorten intervals. Replaces a separate uptime tool for small fleets—but false downs can occur if WAFs block the Tinylytics monitor user-agent.
Daily content crawl for broken links and mixed content
Subscribed sites can crawl up to 50 pages (two levels deep) on a daily cadence, flagging broken links and mixed HTTP assets on HTTPS pages, with ignore lists and re-check. Ultra adds optional AI spell-check on visible copy—keep it off if AI subprocessors are out of policy.
Attribute-based event tracking (beta)
Enable events on the embed script and mark elements with data-tinylytics-event using category.action names (optional values for downloads). No GTM required; beacon mode helps navigations. Still beta—expect API/schema changes and incomplete capture under aggressive blockers.
Public stats, kudos, hit counters, API, and webhooks
Share passcode-protected public stats, embed hit counters and kudos buttons, export CSV, call the documented API, and push signed webhooks for visits, events, and monitoring. Built for transparent blogs and light automation rather than enterprise BI warehouses.

Vantevo Analytics

Daily-rotating hash visitor counting (no analytics cookies)
Visitor uniqueness for a day is derived from HASH(salt + domain + IP + User-Agent) with a salt that rotates every 24 hours; IP and User-Agent are not retained after hashing, per the DPA and docs. No cookies, localStorage, or browser cache for the analytics session—and therefore no multi-day new/returning visitor split. Fits privacy-led sites that prioritize aggregate trends over identity graphs.
Single-page traffic dashboard
Unique visitors, sessions, page views, bounce rate, duration, entry/exit pages, geography, devices, languages, referrals, and UTM campaigns appear on one overview without multi-level custom report builders. Aimed at agencies and SMEs that want operational metrics without a full-time analytics specialist.
Custom events, goals, and automatic link/download tracking
Track button clicks, scrolls, form submits, custom event names with metadata, and conversion goals; outbound links and file downloads can be auto-captured with HTML attributes to exclude specific URLs. Useful for content and lead-gen sites measuring meaningful actions without cookie tags.
Ecommerce funnel events (beta script)
Optional vantevo-ecommerce.js records wishlist, view item, cart add/remove, checkout stages, payment type, coupons, variants/categories, and purchase—docs mark the ecommerce section as still in beta. Best for shops that need privacy-oriented funnel visibility and can accept beta maturity.
Universal Analytics import and multi-platform install paths
Connect Google Analytics to import page statistics from January 2018 onward into the same calendar view (with documented metric gaps and API limits). Ship via head script, WordPress plugin, React/Vue/npm packages, Shopify/Wix theme paste, hybrid apps, or server-side event APIs—plus optional Search Console connection for keyword/impression views.

Assurance & compliance: Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics
Assurance & compliance	Tinylytics	Vantevo Analytics
Independent security / no-logs audit	Not found No public third-party security or no-logs audit report found on official docs.	Not found No public third-party audit PDF or no-logs attestation found on security/docs pages searched.
ISO 27001	Not found No ISO 27001 claim found on privacy, compliance, or hosting pages.	Not found No ISO 27001 certificate or registry evidence found on the public site.
SOC 2 / SOC 3	Not found No SOC 2/3 report or claim found on public site.	Not found No SOC 2/3 report referenced on public trust/legal pages.
GDPR / EU data protection	Vendor claimed Vendor documents GDPR-oriented design (cookieless, data minimisation, EU primary host, deletion). Not independent certification.	Vendor claimed Italian controller (Netforce Srl); cookie-less visitor model and EU hosting asserted on docs/GDPR pages; public DPA available. Vendor “100% GDPR compliant” wording is a claim, not independent legal certification.
US CLOUD Act exposure (indicative)	Partial UK operator, no known US parent, primary host Hetzner DE; partial exposure via Cloudflare, Sentry, Lemon Squeezy/Paddle, optional IPinfo and opt-in US AI APIs. Not legal advice.	Partial EU entity / no known US parent, but DPA lists AWS alongside OVH Roubaix; Stripe and optional Google APIs are US-group services. Not a clean EU-only infrastructure story. Not legal advice.
Data processing agreement (B2B)	Not found No public DPA/downloadable processor agreement found; ask the vendor before B2B rollout.	Vendor claimed Public DPA at vantevo.io/dpa; Terms state DPA forms part of the main agreement (customer controller, Netforce processor).
EU AI Act	Not applicable Core product is analytics/monitoring; optional AI insights are secondary and opt-in.	Not applicable Web analytics SaaS; not marketed as an AI system product.

Considerations & known limitations: Tinylytics vs Vantevo Analytics
Considerations & known limitations	Tinylytics	Vantevo Analytics
US-group subprocessors on the data path	Medium Cloudflare, Sentry, payment processors (incl. Lemon Squeezy/Stripe group), optional IPinfo and opt-in xAI/Gemini mean the stack is not EU-only end-to-end despite Hetzner primary storage.	Not listed
Solo-founder operational concentration	Medium Service is provided by Vincent Ritter Consulting / a solo developer. Support is personal and fast for indies, but bus-factor and formal SLA expectations differ from larger vendors.	Not listed
No public ISO/SOC/audit or DPA pack	Medium Enterprise security questionnaires will hit gaps until the vendor supplies audits and a B2B DPA under NDA or email.	Not listed
Scale and feature boundaries	Low Content crawls are depth/page limited; event tracking is beta; fair-usage applies to extreme hit volumes; no self-host escape hatch.	Not listed
Optional AI shares aggregated analytics	Low AI Insights and related AI spell-check are opt-in and send aggregated (not visitor PII per vendor) data to third-party AI providers—leave disabled under strict AI policies.	Not listed
AWS (and other US-group services) in data path	Not listed	Medium Despite Italian HQ and EU hosting marketing, the DPA explicitly stores data at OVH Roubaix and an AWS datacenter. Stripe payments and optional Google integrations add further US-group processors. Organizations with strict “no US cloud” policies need written clarification of regions, SCCs, and residual access risk.
No public ISO/SOC or independent audit	Not listed	Medium Shortlisting relies on vendor security measures described in the DPA (encryption, backups, breach notification windows) without published certs or third-party audit reports. Security questionnaires and NDA evidence may be required for regulated buyers.
No multi-day visitor identity by design	Not listed	Low Daily salt rotation and cookie-less design prevent classic returning-visitor and cross-device analysis. This is a privacy feature for many buyers and a hard product limit for others.
Ecommerce module still beta	Not listed	Medium Official ecommerce docs mark the section as beta/incomplete for final publication. Do not assume GA ecommerce parity or long-term event stability without a pilot.
View overage and website caps in Terms	Not listed	Low Recording can pause after plan-specific overage tolerances; Terms also set a 50-website maximum per account. Align marketing “unlimited domains” language with contract terms before large agency rollouts.
SaaS-only dependency	Not listed	Low No public self-host option. Continuity depends on Netforce operations, OVH/AWS, and export/delete workflows (JSON/CSV return or delete timelines in DPA/Terms).

Fit

Tinylytics

Best fit when

Indie blogs, portfolios, and side projects that want simple cookieless stats without Google Analytics
Small sites that also want uptime, SSL expiry, and broken-link checks in the same tool
Operators who prefer founder-answered support and lightweight embeds over enterprise marketing stacks
Teams OK with managed EU primary hosting and willing to review named US-group subprocessors (CDN, payments, optional AI)
Agencies managing a modest number of client sites with public stats or kudos-style engagement widgets

Poor fit when

Orgs that require self-hosted collectors or open-source audit of the full analytics stack
Procurement needing published ISO 27001, SOC 2, independent audits, or a downloadable DPA out of the box
Very high-traffic properties needing contractual capacity/SLA commitments beyond fair-usage conversation
Policies that ban Cloudflare/Sentry/US payment or optional US AI APIs on any data path
Teams that need session replay, heatmaps, or deep advertising attribution (Clarity/GA territory)

Consider instead when

When: You need open-source and optional self-hosting of the analytics stack
Consider: Plausible Analytics
Estonian product with Cloud plus Community Edition self-host; less bundling of uptime/content monitors.
When: You want European cookieless analytics with a simpler analytics-only scope
Consider: Simple Analytics
Strong privacy positioning; compare feature depth and monitoring separately.
When: You need free-at-scale marketing analytics, ads integrations, or attribution depth
Consider: Google Analytics (incumbent) — or stay on a privacy tool if GA is disallowed
Different privacy and sovereignty profile entirely.
When: You need session replay or heatmaps and accept that privacy model
Consider: Microsoft Clarity or specialised replay tools
Tinylytics deliberately avoids fingerprinting-style session products.

Vantevo Analytics

Best fit when

EU/Italian teams replacing Google Analytics for marketing-site KPIs without analytics cookies
Agencies needing a simple multi-site dashboard clients can read without GA training
Shops that want privacy-oriented funnel events (cart → checkout → purchase) and accept beta maturity
Migrations that need to pull Universal Analytics page history into a privacy-first tool
Stacks using WordPress, Shopify, React/Next, Vue/Nuxt, or server-side event APIs

Poor fit when

Requirements for multi-day returning visitors, cross-device identity, or ad-platform audience sync
Mandatory self-hosting, open-source code audit, or on-prem only deployments
Procurement that requires public ISO 27001/SOC 2 evidence and independent security audits before shortlist
Heavy product analytics / cohort experimentation beyond site and ecommerce funnel events
Accounts that need more than the Terms’ 50-website cap without vendor exception

Consider instead when

When: You want a well-known lightweight EU privacy analytics tool with strong community presence
Consider: Plausible Analytics or Simple Analytics
Compare ecommerce depth, GA import, and commercial packaging side by side.
When: You need self-host or enterprise compliance packaging
Consider: Piwik PRO (or Matomo self-host outside this catalog’s EU-SaaS peers)
Vantevo is SaaS-only with no public self-host edition found.
When: You need full product analytics and long-horizon cohorts
Consider: Mixpanel or similar product analytics suites
Different category: identity-rich product instrumentation vs privacy-first site metrics.
When: You specifically want German-market privacy analytics peers
Consider: Pirsch Analytics or etracker (catalog peers)
Validate feature parity on ecommerce and import paths.

Open questions for due diligence

Tinylytics

Will Vincent Ritter Consulting sign a GDPR Article 28 DPA and provide a current subprocessor list under contract?
Are backups/DR and email delivery fully covered by the named providers, or are there additional hosts?
Is there any roadmap for independent security review, SOC 2, or ISO 27001?
What contractual terms apply for accounts consistently above the fair-usage hit threshold?
For AI Insights: exact retention, regions, and processor terms at xAI and Google for the paid API plans used?

Vantevo Analytics

Which exact AWS region(s) and services are in production, and are standard contractual clauses / transfer impact assessments available on request?
Is a current subprocessor list (beyond DPA/privacy mentions of OVH, AWS, Stripe, Crisp, Google) available under NDA?
Are ISO 27001, SOC 2, or independent penetration-test summaries available for enterprise procurement?
What is the production roadmap and support SLA for ecommerce events leaving beta?
How should multi-brand agencies interpret “unlimited domains” marketing versus the Terms’ 50-website cap—exceptions available?