Plausible Analytics
plausible.io · Product analytics
Lightweight, privacy-friendly web analytics.
54 items · 66 source threads · 2 source types · updated 2025-11
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Pain points 40
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Instance will not start after pulling the latest Docker image Updating to the newest image caused a config reader crash on boot and a bad gateway error, leaving the self-hosted instance down. Affects: self-hosting users |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Causes churn | 3 sources | 2024-05 |
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| All-time view stuck on monthly granularity For several days the all-time view only offered the month interval instead of changing with the selected duration. |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 3 sources | 2023-09 |
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| Self-hosted instance shows country only, no region or city A self-hoster running recent master wants city-level geolocation but visitors appear only at country level, even after pointing to a MaxMind City database. Affects: self-hosting users |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 3 sources | 2022-07 |
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| Database migration fails when self-hosting with podman Running the main container under podman instead of Docker fails during migrations with a PostgreSQL error about a missing type. Affects: self-hosting users using podman |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Causes churn | 2 sources | 2020-07 |
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| Proxying the script through Netlify redirects returns intermittent 500s A site proxying the Plausible script and event endpoint via Netlify redirects sees a regular rate of HTTP 500 errors on the event calls. Affects: site owners using a proxy to avoid blockers |
Integrations | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2022-04 |
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| Dashboard is poorly optimized for small screens Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Mobile | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2021-08 |
| Deploy bot from hosting platform shows up as a visitor Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 2 sources | 2022-07 |
| A script update sent tracking requests to the wrong domain Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 1 source | 2021-05 |
| Server crashes after many requests due to user agent cache Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Causes churn | 1 source | 2021-04 |
| New dedicated tracking script crashes for newly added sites Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-11 |
| Some event properties never appear when sending about 50 per event Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-11 |
| npm tracker package fails to resolve in a Vite dev server Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 1 source | 2025-11 |
| Invite email link is missing a dot in the domain Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-09 |
| Sites API returns 404 on self-hosted and is not documented as unsupported Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-06 |
| Emails no longer delivered after upgrade to the new mailer library Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-06 |
| Cloudflare Workers proxy leaves the country map empty Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2024-04 |
| GA4 properties missing from the Google Analytics import dropdown Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Data export & migration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-09 |
| Time on page shows implausible multi-hour averages Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-09 |
| Invites do not work while registration is disabled Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Collaboration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2022-02 |
| Top, entry and exit page links point to an undefined page Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-12 |
| Self-hosted Plausible gets fixes and features months after cloud Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-11 |
| Docker image hardcodes uid 1000 and breaks other users Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-10 |
| Invited user stuck on the activate page after registering Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Collaboration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Plausible dashboard fails to load inside WordPress Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-04 |
| Embedded dashboard is blocked by Brave Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reliability & bugs | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-04 |
| Weekly and monthly report emails rejected by SMTP servers Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-03 |
| Custom click events can be lost when the page navigates away Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-03 |
| Search Console integration errors on the first site after adding a second Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Blocks work | 1 source | 2021-01 |
| ClickHouse uses heavy resources even with almost no traffic Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Performance | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-08 |
| Goal conversions missing in the realtime view Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-07 |
| Dashboard shows stats in US time instead of the site timezone Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-07 |
| Plausible loses traffic from visitors using adblockers Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-11 |
| CSV export lacks the per-source referrer breakdown Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Data export & migration | Annoyance | 1 source | 2023-01 |
| Section tabs cannot be reached by keyboard link tools Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-10 |
| Previous-period comparison uses the whole earlier day Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-01 |
| Unclear how to track two subdomains separately on the hosted plan Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Setup & onboarding | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-01 |
| No monthly active users metric in Plausible Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-10 |
| Weekly report email is badly formatted on mobile Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Mobile | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-08 |
| Not obvious how to switch between sites in the dashboard Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Dashboard text overflows containers with larger browser font sizes Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
UI & usability | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
Feature requests 12
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Attach arbitrary metadata to custom events Users wanted to send extra properties with an event, for example which form a sign-up came from, and sort or filter events by them in the dashboard. This has since shipped as custom props. |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 2 sources | 2020-07 |
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| Analytics for native and hybrid mobile apps A Flutter developer wants an easy dependency, configured with a tracking ID, to add Plausible analytics to iOS and Android apps. Affects: mobile app developers |
Mobile | Annoyance | 2 sources | 2020-09 |
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| Postgres SSL connections not supported in the container Deploying on Kubernetes with a Postgres database that requires SSL fails because the ssl application is not started in the release. Affects: self-hosting users on Kubernetes |
Self-hosting & upgrades | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-10 |
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| Import historical Google Analytics data Users asked for a way to bring their Google Analytics history into Plausible to make leaving GA easier. Universal Analytics import has since shipped. Affects: teams migrating from Google Analytics |
Data export & migration | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
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| Support all UTM parameters, not just source Plausible only reads ref, source and utm_source; the requester wants utm_medium and utm_campaign too because marketing tools and partners tag links that way. Affects: marketers and teams with partner traffic |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
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| Get exempted from tracker blockers Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Option to track hash-based routing in single-page apps Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Setup & onboarding | Blocks work | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Read secrets from files instead of environment variables Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Permissions & security | Annoyance | 1 source | 2021-06 |
| Plugin or component for Hugo Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Integrations | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Publish the tracking script as an npm package Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
API & developer experience | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Heatmap support Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
| Show browser and OS versions Locked: summary and evidence are part of Sprint Pass and Pro |
Reporting & analytics | Annoyance | 1 source | 2020-06 |
Workarounds 2
| Item | Area | Severity | Support | Last seen |
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| Serving Plausible from a custom domain avoids adblocker blocking A user runs Plausible behind their own domain so the analytics script is not caught by ad blockers, and pairs it with a system font stack for fast pages. Affects: site owners |
Setup & onboarding | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-10 |
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| Patched Plausible to report top-level URLs from an iframe-sandboxed site A user tracking notebooks embedded in iframes found the default tracking reported iframe URLs; because the product is open source they modified it to report the user-facing page URL instead. Affects: people tracking sites they do not own or sandboxed embeds |
Customization | Annoyance | 1 source | 2022-06 |
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