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Live · Plausible CE · EU-hosted

We track without cookies. Here's the proof.

datascale.de runs on Plausible Community Edition, self-hosted on Hetzner in Germany. No cookies, no IP storage, no consent banner required. And because we mean it, the dashboard is public: this is exactly what we see.

analytics.datascale.de · no cookies · no consent banner · EU servers

datascale.de

live

Visitors

460

Pageviews

1,652

Visit duration

4:03 min

Bounce rate

42 %

cookies set

0

Top pages

  1. Homepage121
  2. /karriere/42
  3. /en/careers/36
  4. /ueber-uns/35
  5. /en/29
  6. /en/blog/shopify-server-side-tracking-stape/22
  7. /blog/21
  8. /integrations/21

Top sources

  1. Direct340
  2. Google111
  3. Bing7
  4. metajob.de7
  5. claude.ai6
  6. DuckDuckGo4
  7. areasignal.de3
  8. google_jobs_apply3

Traffic from AI assistants

2.0 %Share of all visitors+0.1 percentage points vs. the previous range

  1. Claude6
  2. ChatGPT2
  3. Perplexity1

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini, Claude, You.com, Phind. A lower bound: many assistants send no referrer, and that share lands under Direct.

Devices

  • Desktop379 · 79 %
  • Mobile61 · 13 %
  • Other37 · 8 %

Weekly rhythm

Avg. visitors per weekday

Countries

    Unfiltered, incl. bot and datacenter traffic. We deliberately don't filter.

    Plausible Community Edition · self-hosted on Hetzner in Falkenstein · no cookies, no US cloud, no personal data.unfiltered, fresh from the database on every load

    Why we publish this

    Verifiable, not claimed.

    Cookie-free is workable

    This site sets not a single cookie and needs no consent banner. Anyone claiming analytics is impossible without tracking cookies can check the numbers here.

    Numbers we use ourselves

    These are the same figures our own decisions run on, bad days and the high direct share included.

    Not a standard recipe

    For client projects we build pragmatically by use case: GA4, server-side GTM, Consent Mode, BigQuery, Meta CAPI, BI or Plausible. EU-first, but not dogmatic.

    Our setup

    How we measure cookie-free

    Cookieless, full coverage

    Cookie-based analytics under a GDPR-compliant CMP usually requires explicit consent, which means losing 30–50 % of your data depending on audience. Plausible CE doesn't set cookies at all; it identifies visitors via a daily-rotating, hashed combination of user-agent + IP. No personal identification, no consent needed, full coverage.

    Self-hosted in the EU

    Plausible Cloud is partially EU-hosted, but running Community Edition on our own infrastructure gives us full control: every request stays on our Hetzner server in Falkenstein, no DPA with a SaaS vendor, database backups under our own custody.

    No personal data collected

    No session IDs, no demographics. Interest profiles and remarketing lists never get built in the first place. We see which pages get visited, where traffic comes from, and the rough geo-region. That's it. Enough for our needs, and for 95 % of websites.

    Loads despite adblockers

    This dashboard is server-rendered, and the period switcher only talks to datascale.de. No request to analytics.datascale.de for uBlock, Brave or a corporate proxy to block. The numbers come straight from our database, fresh on every page load. The same logic we use to harden tracking against adblock loss, server-side.

    Our website stack

    Deliberately lean.

    Four components, all in the EU, all replaceable. A setup that only works with five SaaS tools is not a setup, it is a dependency chain.

    Browse the integrations catalog →

    AnalyticsPlausible Community Editionself-hosted
    Hostingown server, EU regionEU
    Consentnot required, no personal data storedn/a
    Dashboardpublic at /en/open/public
    • Q01Transparency
      Why is the dashboard public?

      Because cookieless tracking produces no personal data, there's nothing to hide. The public dashboard shows exactly what we see in Plausible, fresh on every page load.

    • Q02Transparency
      Why are bots and datacenter traffic in the dashboard?

      Because we deliberately don't filter. Plausible CE detects bots less aggressively than the Cloud version. Rather than polish the numbers, we show the raw view, bot and datacenter traffic included.

    • Q03Hosting
      What's the difference between Plausible Cloud and Community Edition?

      Plausible Cloud is hosted SaaS, partly EU, partly US CDN. The Community Edition (AGPLv3) runs on your own infrastructure, ours on a Hetzner server in Falkenstein, Germany. Full data custody, no vendor DPA needed.

    • Q04Setup
      Can I build this setup myself?

      Yes. Plausible CE is open source (AGPLv3); the guide lives in the <a href="https://github.com/plausible/community-edition" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Plausible Community Edition repo ↗</a>. We also support setups as part of Measurement &amp; Privacy Engineering.

    • Q05Pricing
      What does a Plausible CE setup cost at Datascale?

      A Measurement Audit Sprint starts at €2,400 net, fixed price, 2 weeks. Setup, GA4 migration or a hybrid parallel run go through Measurement &amp; Privacy Engineering, scope-dependent.

    GDPR analytics

    The setup that fits your legal position.

    Plausible, Piwik PRO, Matomo or GA4: the answer depends on your data depth, not on our opinion. The calculator gives a first direction.

    GDPR Stack Calculator 30-minute intro