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How Plausible Analytics Grew

Privacy-focused web analytics tool alternative to Google Analytics

How did Plausible Analytics grow?

Summary of the sourced claims below

Plausible Analytics grew primarily through content marketing, including writing blog posts, sharing their journey, and engaging with niche communities and social media platforms like Twitter and Indie Hackers. The product was open source from the start, which helped build trust with the audience and fostered organic growth through community engagement and transparency. They also benefited from organic search traffic, gradually increasing their Google organic visitors from 10 per day to over 500 per day.

Channels

11 channels · grouped by how Plausible Analytics grows

  • Organic social media

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “Uku started writing blog posts, tweets and sharing on Indie Hackers as soon as he started thinking about building a web analytics tool. First blog post was published on December 20th 2018 ... Writing blog posts and sharing your journey and lessons learned can get your name in front of more people...”
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    “We are active on a couple of social media platforms (Twitter and Mastodon) and the majority of our marketing efforts are spent on creating and publishing content.”
    high
    “He found it somehow on Twitter, you know, content marketing way. He reached out.”
    medium

  • Online Community

    · 3 mentions · 3 sources
    “Everything was done in the open as he shared his thought process on the blog and he interacted and engaged with the different communities such as Indie Hackers ... there was no big launch and the product grew organically from the community engagement.”
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    “But when I joined Plausible and looked like what he did until then, I was like, this, I like this idea, you know, being open source, transparent, privacy first, being part of this kind of Indie Hacking community, uh, kind of being open about everything like the MRR and even to this day. So basica...”
    medium
    “Writing blog posts and sharing your journey and lessons learned can get your name in front of more people be it through niche communities, links or search engines rankings.”
    high

  • SEO

    · 3 mentions · 2 sources
    “So we've been basically from one, my, my, I love tiny goals, you know, tiny wins. So my first goal on the first week was like, I really want us to get 10 Google organic visitors per day ... now two years down the line, we get, I think the best day was 800 or so and most days get 500 plus from Goo...”
    high
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    “We are active on a couple of social media platforms (Twitter and Mastodon) and the majority of our marketing efforts are spent on creating and publishing content. We publish the best possible content that we can think of on our blog and other relevant communities around the web. Content marketing...”
    high
    “Writing blog posts and sharing your journey and lessons learned can get your name in front of more people be it through niche communities, links or search engines rankings.”
    high

  • Content marketing

    · 2 mentions · 2 sources
    “I published some blog posts about how to de-Google your life or how to de-Google your website ... He found it somehow on Twitter, you know, content marketing way. He reached out. ... So that's that was like the first two weeks that I spent on kind of researching the opinions, the differences, wri...”
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    “We publish the best possible content that we can think of on our blog and other relevant communities around the web. Content marketing is what caused our sudden growth in April as we published a post on reasons why you should remove Google Analytics from your site...”
    high

  • Open-source community

    · 2 mentions
    “And you mentioned the product is also open source... is it also like a marketing strategy in a sense... what was the mindset behind the open source?... Basically, Plausible was open source from the start...that's kind of one of the core aspects...I think this really benefits us...we can build tru...”
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    “Everything was done in the open as he shared his thought process on the blog and he interacted and engaged with the different communities such as Indie Hackers. We open-sourced the product, opened the development process, asked for public feedback and feature requests, and made the product roadma...”
    high

  • Twitter

    · 1 mention
    “We posted our first tweet on May 18th, have been engaging and interacting daily since then, and are now up on more than 1,100 followers.”
    high

  • Ebook

    · 1 mention
    “I shared it on Hacker News shortly after posting it and the community there enjoyed it, upvoted it, and had a large discussion about Google and the issues surrounding Google Analytics. That post alone has been visited by 65,000 people by now.”
    high

  • Word of mouth

    · 1 mention
    “We’ve spread the word about Plausible and what makes us different to Google Analytics and a decent percentage of people that hear about us connect to that message as it resonates with them and they try out the product and some end up liking it enough that they choose to permanently remove Google ...”
    high

  • Reddit

    · 1 mention
    “I shared it on Hacker News shortly after posting it and the community there enjoyed it, upvoted it, and had a large discussion about Google and the issues surrounding Google Analytics.”
    high

  • Product Hunt

    · 1 mention
    “I shared it on Hacker News shortly after posting it and the community there enjoyed it, upvoted it, and had a large discussion about Google and the issues surrounding Google Analytics. That post alone has been visited by 65,000 people by now.”
    high

  • Hacker News

    · 1 mention
    “I shared it on Hacker News shortly after posting it and the community there enjoyed it, upvoted it, and had a large discussion about Google and the issues surrounding Google Analytics. That post alone has been visited by 65,000 people by now.”
    high

How 2,739 businesses grow

Of businesses with mapped growth channels, the share using each — Plausible Analytics’s highlighted.
  • Referral/Word-of-mouth
    68% ◀
  • Social media
    60% ◀
  • Search/SEO
    57% ◀
  • Email
    48%
  • Community
    35% ◀
  • Content/Inbound
    33% ◀
  • Partnerships
    32%
  • Paid ads
    24%
  • Events
    24%
  • Press/PR
    17%
  • Outbound/Sales
    17%
  • Marketplaces/App stores
    10%
  • Product expansion
    2%
  • Influencer partnerships
    2%
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