Feder and Simple Analytics: keep Simple Analytics, check the numbers you run on.
No, Feder is not a replacement for Simple Analytics. Keep Simple Analytics. Feder does a different job beside it: it reads what your connected apps recorded and compares each number with your own history, so you know when one cannot be trusted.
Why would I need this?
Because the question is not what the number is. It is whether you can trust it.
Is Feder an alternative to Simple Analytics?
No. Simple Analytics is a web analytics tool for teams that want the full picture of their traffic without tracking people. Feder does a different job: it watches the numbers your tools record and says when one cannot be trusted. Nothing here asks you to switch.
Do I need Feder if I have Simple Analytics?
They do different jobs, so one does not stand in for the other. Keep Simple Analytics for the job it does. Feder's job is to say when a number your tools record has gone quiet or moved outside your own history.
What does Simple Analytics do better?
Simple Analytics counts visits without cookies, browser storage, fingerprinting or personal data.
In Simple Analytics's words:
We do not use cookies (or any kind of storage), fingerprinting, or PII data.
Unique visits explained | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.Simple Analytics leaves out robots by default, using their user agent and the traces they leave in the browser.
In Simple Analytics's words:
By default, we block robots based on their user agent and some traces they leave in the browser by default.
Advanced robot blocking | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.Simple Analytics can count chosen actions, such as a button click, as events.
In Simple Analytics's words:
With events in Simple Analytics you can collect counts of certain events.
Introduction to events | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.
What can go wrong with Simple Analytics's numbers?
Some ad blockers can block Simple Analytics like any other analytics tool, so visits can go uncounted unless the site sets up the bypass Simple Analytics offers.
In Simple Analytics's words:
Ad-blockers see us just any other analytics company and some of the ad-blockers are blocking our domain as a result.
Bypass ad-blockers | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.Simple Analytics says its default robot blocking works for most robots, but some can slip through and be counted.
In Simple Analytics's words:
For most robots, this works great, but some slip through the cracks.
Advanced robot blocking | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.By default Simple Analytics does not record visits from devices with Do Not Track turned on, so its counts can be lower than tools that count them, unless the site chooses to collect them.
In Simple Analytics's words:
By default the data will not include visitors with the Do Not Track enabled.
Do Not Track | Simple Analytics Docs, read 2026-11-12.
How does Feder work with Simple Analytics?
- Feder has no connection to Simple Analytics today, so it reads nothing from it.
- The two can run side by side: Simple Analytics keeps doing its job, and Feder checks the numbers your other tools record against your own history.
- Feder only reads. It never changes anything in a connected app.
What should I ask about my Simple Analytics setup?
- Which numbers on my dashboard are counted at the source, and which are modeled or estimated?
- If this number stopped counting tomorrow, who would notice, and when?
- What does a normal week look like for this number, in my own history?
Questions owners ask
- Does Feder replace Simple Analytics?
- No. Keep Simple Analytics. Feder sits beside it.
- Does Feder send data into Simple Analytics?
- No. Feder only reads.
- How accurate is Feder?
- We do not publish an accuracy number yet. When there is a measured one, it will be here with how it was measured.
Where do these claims come from?
Every quoted statement about Simple Analytics on this page comes from Simple Analytics's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. We read them again by 2027-05-11. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.