📊 Why teams switch from Google Analytics to Pulserr
An honest, side-by-side comparison across 9 categories.
8
Pulserr wins
0
Ties
1
Google Analytics wins
Feature
Pulserr
Google Analytics
Privacy
✓No cookies, GDPR compliant by default
Requires cookie consent banners
Script size
✓Under 1KB
45KB+
Setup time
✓30 seconds, one script tag
Weeks to configure properly
Data ownership
✓100% your data, never shared
Google uses your data for ads
Real-time
✓Live WebSocket feed
Minutes of delay
Price
✓Free tier forever
Free but you pay with data
Attention analytics
✓Engagement scores, reader types, flow state
Not available
Link-in-Bio
✓Free bio page with analytics built in
Not available
Market share
Growing fast
✓Dominant (85%+ of web)
The honest take
Google Analytics is free because you are the product. Pulserr is free because we believe analytics should be simple and private.