Blog
Read about the experiences, stories, and tips on technology, design, and everything in between that we gathered while building the best Google Analytics alternative.

2024 Recap — Being In the Weird State of a Mid-Sized SaaS
At the end of 2024, it's time to look back at what we've accomplished and what challenges remain.
December 21, 2024
Implement A/B Testing Using Tag-based Segmentation on Pirsch Analytics
Learn how you can implement A/B testing on Pirsch using tags.
February 22, 2024
How to Track the Playback Time of HTML, YouTube, and Vimeo Videos Using Custom Events
Learn how you can track the playback time of HTML, YouTube, and Vimeo videos on your website using custom events.
December 2, 2023
How We Use Caddy to Provide Custom Domains for Our Clients
Learn how we configured Caddy to automatically provision SSL certificates for custom domains for our clients.
October 22, 2023
How to Create a White-Labeled Web Analytics Dashboard for Your Clients
Learn how to create a white-labeled web analytics dashboard for your clients using Pirsch Analytics. A beginner-friendly guide to setting up a privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative that's on brand!
August 30, 2023
Introducing Pirsch Analytics 2.0: Custom Domains, Themes, Organizations and More
Today we are releasing Pirsch Analytics 2.0 including custom domains, themes, organizations and more.
July 8, 2023
Case Study: Famewall
We interviewed Goutham Jay about his Pirsch integration into Famewall.
July 3, 2023
Flexible A/B Testing on Deno Using the Fresh Framework and Pirsch Analytics
Learn how you can implement A/B testing on Deno + Fresh using Pirsch.
March 19, 2023
Case Study: How Maglr.com Integrated Pirsch Analytics
We interviewed Berry van Elk about his Pirsch integration into Maglr as a replacement for Google Analytics.
December 9, 2022
How to Switch From Google Analytics (and Keep Your Data)
Google Analytics 3 is sunsetting in 2023. Learn how you can switch to a better alternative and take your data with you.
August 28, 2022
Our Experience Launching the Same Project on Product Hunt Twice
I recently stumbled across a discussion on Indie Hackers about whether Product Hunt is a useful platform to launch your product on, and I thought I’d share some of our experiences.
February 17, 2022
Google Analytics Declared Illegal In Europe
The transfer of data from the EU to the US through Google Analytics was declared illegal by the Austrian DSB.
January 13, 2022
Our Recap of 2021
A summary of the past year, what we did, and what we have planned for 2022.
December 21, 2021
How to Track the Reading Time of Blog Articles and Registrations
Learn how we implemented reading time tracking for our blog and how we reliably track registrations from our backend.
July 28, 2021
How We Develop and Operate Pirsch
Learn how we operate Pirsch on Hetzner cloud using HashiCorp Nomad, Traefik, Letsencrypt and more.
July 4, 2021
Introduction to Pirsch Analytics
Lets talk about us, why we started Pirsch and its future.
June 4, 2021