Comparisons
Web Analytics Comparisons with Nomada
Honest, side-by-side comparisons with the privacy-first and mainstream analytics tools you’re probably weighing — so you can choose with clear eyes.
Choosing an analytics tool is really a choice about your visitors. Most platforms still lean on cookies and ship personal data to third parties — which means consent banners, slower pages, and a privacy policy you’d rather not write. Nomada takes the opposite path: cookieless by default, no personal data stored, a script under 2 KB, and your numbers never sold.
Below we line Nomada up against the tools teams most often consider — fairly, including where each rival is genuinely strong. Pick a matchup to see the full side-by-side table, the honest trade-offs, and what you’d gain by switching.
Pick a matchup
Nomada vs Google Analytics
Get the numbers that matter — visitors, pages, sources, campaigns — without cookies, consent banners, or shipping your visitors’ data to Google. Add one line of script and you’re live in seconds.
See the comparison →Nomada vs Plausible
Love Plausible’s privacy-first, cookieless approach but want a genuinely free tier and embeddable live widgets? That’s Nomada.
See the comparison →Nomada vs Fathom Analytics
The same privacy-first, no-cookie philosophy — plus a genuinely free tier, embeddable live widgets and shareable public dashboards.
See the comparison →Nomada vs Matomo
Want privacy-first analytics without Matomo’s weight, cookies-by-default and server upkeep? Nomada is cookieless from the first pageview, fully hosted, and live in seconds.
See the comparison →Nomada vs Simple Analytics
Same simple, privacy-first idea — plus a genuinely free plan, embeddable live widgets and public dashboards to show your stats off.
See the comparison →What you get with Nomada
The same answers in every comparison — here they are at a glance.
- Cookies & consent banner: None needed
- Personal data stored: None — IPs hashed in memory
- Script size: ~1.5 KB
- Setup & maintenance: Hosted — nothing to maintain
- Free plan: Yes — free forever
- Embeddable live widgets: Yes
- Public web analytics: Yes
- Data sold or shared: Never
How we compare, honestly
Every tool here is a real, capable product, and we say so. Plausible and Fathom are excellent privacy-first options; Matomo is endlessly configurable and can be self-hosted for full data ownership — something Nomada doesn’t offer. Google Analytics is free and deeply tied to Google Ads. Our comparisons call out those strengths instead of pretending they don’t exist.
Where Nomada wins for most teams: a genuinely free tier, embeddable live widgets, shareable public dashboards, a cookieless default with no consent banner, and a tiny script that keeps Core Web Vitals green. Figures are our best understanding and can change — tell us if anything looks off.
Loved by people who care about privacy
Makers, agencies and writers who switched for honest numbers — without the creepy parts.
I compared half a dozen tools. Nomada was the only one that was cookieless, had a real free tier, and I could read at a glance.
We moved off Google Analytics and never looked back. Lighter pages, no banner, and the numbers finally make sense.
I wanted Plausible’s privacy with a free plan and embeddable widgets. After lining them up, Nomada was the obvious pick.
🍪 No cookies 🔒 No personal data 🇪🇺 GDPR & CCPA friendly ⚡ ~1.5 KB script
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