[kukkeliskuu]

This is great. For me the commercial Plausible is just not plausible. I have a site with 2M page views, with most of the pages cached, which keeps the server costs minimal, I pay around 50 USD per month. I don't get much revenue from the site. I want to show visit counts on the site. For 2M page views, Plausible (with the stats API) would cost 189 USD per month, quadrupling my costs.

[gernest]

This is one of the reason I created vince.

For reference, the demo is hosted on a 6$ vultr instance, the last 3 days it handled about 11.9K pageviws with 4.3K unique visitors.

I have just checked the vultr dashboard.

Bandwidth = 3.37 GB ,vCPU usage = 1% (yep one percent) , Current charges = 1.06$.

Majority of the bandwidth is for outgoing data serving the dashboard.

I carefully designed vince to be extremely efficient for web analytics workloads.

Please give vince a try.

[maeil]

2M page views and not much revenue does sound like a choice. I have no affiliation to Plausible but 2M pageviews per month has such high revenue potential that if you'd monetize it (which frankly is the logical assumption they'd operate on), $189 month would be a trivial expense.

[kukkeliskuu]

You are partly correct, although it really depends. My site is in Finnish, which makes Google AdSense the only really viable option, unless I want to spend lots of time finding affiliate marketing revenue. That pays approximately 1.3 euros per 1000 page views, and does not work well with mobile page views on my site. I get 2M page views on high season, now it is off-season and visit counts are lower. I really get only around 20 euros per day on ad revenue, which makes around 600 euros per month. 200 euros per month cost is not "trivial". I have some other revenue, but that is small as well. Header bidding companies are interested to work with you if you have 5M+ page views per month. On a longer term, I think there is potential, but sure, I have made the decision to make the site foremost a public service, and revenue is secondary.

[maeil]

That's an incredibly low CPM, especially since your visitors will almost solely be from Finland, right? It's not uncommon to earn ~$1k/month purely from ads on blogs with ~100k unique visitors/month. So your CPM seems >20 times less than that.

Do the better paying ad networks all reject you solely because of the language?

[kukkeliskuu]

I don't know why I get rejected. I don't even get replies to my requests. But I am guessing the language is important part of it.

[openplatypus]

Hi, just FYI, the Wide Angle Analytics (my product) will cost you between 30 and 90 EUR per month for 1M and 10M accordingly.

There are many web analytics providers with surprisingly high prices.

We are cheaper and even planning on creating free tier by making smart use of resources and avoiding overpriced cloud providers.