The short version
- Simple Analytics is a clean, privacy-first tool that does pageviews and referrers beautifully; pick it if that is all you need.
- Conclick is built for founders who need traffic tied to revenue: payment-processor attribution, real-screenshot heatmaps, and auto-detected funnels with revenue lost per drop-off.
- If you sell a paid product, Conclick tells you which campaign made money.
Ties every Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, or Dodo payment back to the source, campaign, and funnel that earned it.
Click maps, scroll depth, and rage/dead clicks on real screenshots of your actual pages.
Surfaces your single biggest drop-off and the revenue you are losing to it, no manual setup.
One launch morning my Simple Analytics dashboard told me 1,200 people had arrived from Product Hunt, and I had no way to find out whether a single one of them paid. The pageview graph looked great. My bank account was indifferent. It is honestly one of the better privacy-first tools out there, but it was built to answer "how many people came," not "which ones converted and how much did they spend." Those are different products solving different problems.
Where They Agree
Both tools are cookieless, GDPR and CCPA-friendly, and designed so you can skip the consent banner in most jurisdictions. Both have lightweight scripts that will not crater your Core Web Vitals. Both are built by small teams who actually care about privacy, not just use it as marketing copy. Setup for either takes about two minutes. If your only requirement is "no cookies, no GDPR headache, see my traffic," you will be fine with either one.
Feature Comparison
| Feature | Conclick | Simple Analytics |
|---|---|---|
| Cookieless & GDPR-friendlyBoth skip consent in most cases | ||
| Revenue attributionCore differentiator for paid products | Stripe, Paddle, Polar, LS, Dodo | |
| Heatmaps & click mapsIncludes rage + dead clicks | Real-screenshot heatmaps | |
| Funnel analysisNo manual config needed | Auto-detected + revenue lost | |
| Dashboard simplicitySimple Analytics wins on UX restraint | Full-featured | Best-in-class minimal |
| Daily digest (email/Slack/Discord) | ||
| Visual user journeysIncludes live global visitor map | ||
| GA4 / Search Console import | ||
| Lifetime deal optionOne-time purchase available |
Revenue Attribution: The Feature That Changes the Conversation
Simple Analytics does not have revenue attribution, per their public docs as of July 2026. That is not a knock; it is a product decision. Their tool is deliberately minimal. But for a bootstrapped SaaS or ecommerce founder, "minimal" at the analytics layer can mean flying blind at the business layer.
Conclick connects to Stripe, Paddle, Polar, Lemon Squeezy, and Dodo. Once connected, every payment gets traced back to the source, campaign, and funnel step that produced it. So instead of knowing that Twitter sent 400 visitors last week, you know that Twitter sent 400 visitors and $0 in revenue, while that one SEO article sent 60 visitors and $480. That changes where you spend next week.
Heatmaps, Click Maps, and Funnels
Simple Analytics does not have heatmaps or funnels, per their docs as of July 2026. Conclick does, and the implementation is worth describing specifically because it is different from most heatmap tools.
The heatmaps use real screenshots of your actual pages, not a reconstructed DOM or an approximation. Clicks, scroll depth, rage clicks, and dead clicks all land on top of the actual page your users saw. This matters when your layout changes frequently, because you are always looking at the right screenshot for that period.
Funnels are auto-detected rather than manually configured. Conclick surfaces your single biggest drop-off point and the revenue estimated to be lost there. Most teams spend more time configuring funnel tools than reading them. Auto-detection skips that step and shows you the answer.
The Daily Digest
Conclick sends a daily summary to email, Slack, Discord, or Telegram. It calls out spikes, milestones, and anomalies in plain language rather than a data dump. Simple Analytics has no equivalent, per their docs as of July 2026. This is a small feature but a meaningful one for solo founders who are not opening their dashboard every day; the digest brings the signal to you.
Where Simple Analytics Is the Better Choice
I want to be direct here, because this section matters for anyone trying to make an honest decision.
Simple Analytics has a cleaner, more polished single-page dashboard. If your team includes non-technical stakeholders who want to see traffic trends at a glance without any learning curve, it wins on pure UX simplicity. The dashboard is genuinely beautiful and fast.
Simple Analytics is also the right call if you run a content site, blog, or any project with no payment layer. There is nothing for revenue attribution to connect to, so you would be paying for features you cannot use. For pure traffic intelligence on a free or ad-supported property, it does exactly what you need at a competitive price.
If you specifically want a minimal tool with no extra features creeping in over time, their team has been disciplined about scope. Conclick is adding more. That is a real trade-off: some founders want focused tools, not expanding ones.
Pricing
Conclick is $9 per month, or $7 per month billed yearly. There is a 14-day free trial with no credit card required. There is also an optional one-time lifetime deal for founders who prefer to own rather than subscribe.
Simple Analytics pricing is publicly available on their site. Both tools are in the same general tier for small teams. Neither is expensive relative to what a single attributable conversion is worth.
The Question Worth Asking
When you look at your analytics dashboard, what question are you actually trying to answer? If it is "how many people visited and where did they come from," the minimal dashboard handles that well, and its restraint is a feature. If it is "which channel, campaign, or content piece is making me money, and where am I losing it," that is what Conclick is built around. Not every founder needs the second answer. But most founders running a paid product do, and most are currently guessing.
Frequently asked questions
Does Conclick use cookies like Google Analytics does?
Can I import my existing Google Analytics or Search Console data into Conclick?
How does revenue attribution actually work, and does it slow down my checkout?
Simple Analytics is simpler to use. Is Conclick actually easy to set up?
What if I run a content site with no payment processor? Which tool should I use?
Do I need to configure funnels manually in Conclick the way I would in other analytics tools?
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Deepak Yadav is the founder of Conclick — privacy-first web analytics that ties every visit to real revenue. He has spent years staring at GA4 dashboards trying to answer one question (which traffic actually makes money) and built Conclick to answer it. He writes about analytics, attribution, and what actually moves the needle for bootstrapped founders.