Summary:
PostHog launches privacy-focused Web Analytics
Why It Matters:
The product is expanding from deep product analytics into the broader web analytics market. By offering a cookieless, "GA3-style" dashboard that is free for the first million events, they are directly targeting users frustrated by Google Analytics 4 and smaller privacy-focused competitors.
What Changed:
- Added a dedicated Web Analytics product section featuring a pre-built, real-time dashboard.
- Introduced a cookieless tracking option to eliminate the need for cookie banners.
- Updated pricing to bundle Web Analytics with Product Analytics (free for the first 1 million events per month).
- Added a detailed comparison table against Google Analytics 4 and Plausible.
- Included new features like Core Web Vitals monitoring and entry/exit path tracking.
- Added a "broken link checker" tutorial for Next.js users.