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.
Public dashboard
datascale.de by the numbers
Visitors
280
Pageviews
850
Bounce rate
20 %
Visit duration
2m 11s
Top pages
- Homepage85
- /ueber-uns/32
- /open/19
- /en/blog/shopify-server-side-tracking-stape/18
- /karriere/17
- /ressourcen/16
- /integrations/13
- /blog/12
Top sources
- Direct210
- Google71
- chatgpt.com6
- google_jobs_apply4
- Bing3
- Ecosia2
- copilot.com2
- metajob.de2
Top countries
- United States31
- Germany27
- Singapore12
- China5
- Iceland2
- Switzerland1
- Greece1
- Malaysia1
Unfiltered, incl. bot and datacenter traffic. We deliberately don't filter.
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. No Plausible script in the browser, 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 & Privacy Engineering.
What does a Plausible CE setup cost at Datascale?
A Measurement Audit Sprint starts at €2,400 net, fixed price, 10 working days. Setup, GA4 migration or a hybrid parallel run go through Measurement & Privacy Engineering, scope-dependent.
Architecture audit
Identify the blind spots in your data architecture.
We audit your tracking, consent, data quality and reporting. You leave with a clear assessment of which decisions your current data can safely support.
- 90-min deep dive
- Concrete findings
- Roadmap proposal