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Consent-free and German, but light on people.

etracker measures visits without consent by default, and an independent audit backs that up. It follows a returning person only after consent, and it has no retention report or free plan.

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What etracker is

A German web analytics tool that measures without consent by default, now part of JustRelate.

Licence: Proprietary
Hosting: Their own servers in Hamburg, Germany
Best at: Measuring without consent by default, with an independent audit and servers in Germany behind it.

Where etracker wins.

If one of these is a must-have for you, go with them.

Consent-free by default, and audited

etracker measures without cookies out of the box. An independent audit confirmed it needs no consent under the GDPR and German law, and it holds the ePrivacyseal. We will not claim that for either of our modes.

Data kept in Hamburg

etracker runs its own servers in a Hamburg data centre, and its developers and admins work there too. If your data has to stay in Germany, that settles it in their favour.

Scroll maps and form analysis

On Pro and Enterprise, etracker shows how far people scroll and where they give up on a form. We have neither, and no heatmaps of any kind.

Conversions sent to ad platforms

etracker can send your conversions to Google Ads and Meta Ads from its server. It also sells a tag manager and a consent manager. We offer none of these.

Where Spreelytics wins.

Every line here is a page in the product today.

It can follow a person

In our default mode, a returning visitor keeps one history. That is what makes retention and person timelines work. Without consent, etracker cannot recognise a returning visitor, and its visitor log shows the last 50 visits.

Retention for any segment

etracker has no retention or cohort report. We have weekly retention for any segment, and each segment keeps a live count.

Revenue, attributed on every plan

We take payments from Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy and trace each sale by last-touch or linear. You set the lookback window, from 1 to 90 days, on every plan including Free. etracker’s model comparison starts on Pro, and its docs describe a 30-day window.

Crawlers and AI agents

etracker’s docs describe filtering bot traffic, not reporting on it, and its site lists no MCP server. We count AI crawlers on your server, and your agent can query and build through our hosted MCP endpoint.

Side by side.

We leave prices out because etracker can change theirs at any time. Ours are on the pricing page.

Spreelytics compared with etracker, feature by feature
Feature	Spreelytics	etracker
Free tier	100k events / month, 13 months of data	Trial, then paid
Data sampling	Never sampled	No extrapolated numbers
Cookies	One first-party cookie, or cookieless	Cookieless by default
Open source	Not included	Not included
Self-hosting	Not included	Not included
Funnels	Included	Included
Retention and cohorts	Included	Not included
Path analysis / journeys	Included	Included
Person-level timelines	Included	Last 50 visits, anonymous
Revenue attribution you control	Last-touch or linear	Model comparison, Pro and up
AI crawler and bot traffic	Included	Not included
MCP access for AI agents	Included	Not included
Session replay	On Growth	Not included
Feature flags and experiments	Not included	Hand-built in Tag Manager

Moving over.

Every one of these starts by leaving etracker running.

Keep etracker running

It holds your history. Leave its code in place while new data collects here.

Choose a cookie mode first

We default to one first-party cookie. If you want to stay cookieless, switch the project before you add the snippet. The snippet is the same either way.

Rebuild your conversion processes

Each etracker conversion process becomes a funnel here, with up to eight steps. A step can be a page or an event.

Connect your payments

Connect Stripe, Paddle, Polar or Lemon Squeezy and pass the visitor id at checkout. Each sale then finds the channel that earned it.

FAQ

Switching from etracker.

What people ask before they switch.

etracker needs no consent. Do you?

We will not claim you can skip consent, in either of our modes. By default we set one first-party cookie so a returning visitor is recognised. That cookie is what makes retention and person timelines work.

Cookieless mode stores nothing in the browser. An anonymous visitor then counts as new each day, much as in etracker’s consent-free mode. etracker has an audit behind its claim, and that is a fair reason to choose it.

Do you have scroll maps or form analysis?

No, neither. We have no heatmaps of any kind. If you rely on etracker’s scroll map or form analysis, keep it for that job.

Is there a free plan, or only a trial?

There is a free plan, and it is not a trial. It takes 100k events a month, forever. etracker offers a 30-day trial of its Enterprise edition, and then a paid edition.

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