Is Quantalog GDPR compliant without a consent banner?

Quantalog analytics sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. Visitors are counted using a weekly-rotating hash of IP and user agent, and the IP itself is discarded, which is why no banner is needed. Your own compliance obligations still depend on everything else running on your site, so treat this as one fewer thing to disclose rather than legal advice.

Can Quantalog replace a self-hosted Matomo?

For traffic, events, funnels, goals and SEO, yes. It cannot replace Matomo's heatmaps, session recording, A/B testing or tag manager, and it does not put the database on your own server.

Which is lighter on page performance?

Quantalog. The tracker is under 5 KB gzipped and loads asynchronously, against a materially larger matomo.js.

Quantalog vs Matomo

A lighter Matomo alternative: cookieless real-time analytics with SEO audits built in, no server to maintain and no consent banner in the default configuration.

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Points to Quantalog
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Tied or neither
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Points to Matomo

Matomo is the most complete open-source analytics suite there is, and that is both its strength and the reason teams look elsewhere. This page is for anyone weighing that depth against what it costs to run.

Point by point

Quantalog vs Matomo, side by side.

What you're comparing

Quantalog

Matomo

Server to maintain
Quantalog
Quantalog
None. Hosted service, one script tag.
Matomo
Self-hosted Matomo requires a server, a database and ongoing upgrades. Matomo Cloud removes this.
Consent banner required
Quantalog
Quantalog
No, in every configuration.
Matomo
Not required if cookies are disabled and IPs anonymised, but the default configuration uses cookies.
Script weight
Quantalog
Quantalog
Under 5 KB gzipped.
Matomo
The full matomo.js tracker is substantially larger.
SEO audits and Lighthouse scores
Quantalog
Quantalog
Built in.
Matomo
Available through third-party or premium plugins rather than the core product.
Heatmaps and session recording
Matomo
Quantalog
Not offered.
Matomo
Available as a premium feature.
Data ownership
Matomo
Quantalog
Hosted by Quantalog; raw events exportable as CSV or XLSX at any time.
Matomo
Complete, when self-hosted. The database is yours.
Real-time reporting
Both
Quantalog
Live, with no batch step.
Matomo
Real-time, though on self-hosted installs it depends on how your cron-driven archiving is configured.
Multi-tenant API for your own customers
Quantalog
Quantalog
Yes, as a first-class product surface.
Matomo
Possible through the API and site management, but not packaged for reselling analytics.
Setup time
Quantalog
Quantalog
One script tag; live in seconds.
Matomo
Minutes on Cloud; a provisioning task if self-hosted.

In fairness

When Matomo is the better choice.

Stay with Matomo if you need full data ownership on your own infrastructure, log file analysis, or the breadth of its plugin ecosystem — heatmaps, session recording, A/B testing and tag management under one roof. Quantalog does none of those.

FAQ

Common questions.

Quantalog analytics sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. Visitors are counted using a weekly-rotating hash of IP and user agent, and the IP itself is discarded, which is why no banner is needed. Your own compliance obligations still depend on everything else running on your site, so treat this as one fewer thing to disclose rather than legal advice.
For traffic, events, funnels, goals and SEO, yes. It cannot replace Matomo's heatmaps, session recording, A/B testing or tag manager, and it does not put the database on your own server.
Quantalog. The tracker is under 5 KB gzipped and loads asynchronously, against a materially larger matomo.js.

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Try it against your own traffic.

Run Quantalog alongside Matomo for a couple of weeks and compare the numbers yourself. The Free plan needs no card.

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