Honest side-by-sides of SiteLine, the Search Console API, Plausible, Fathom, Matomo and the rest.
- Plausible vs Umami (2026): price and hosting — Plausible vs Umami on cloud pricing, free tiers, self-hosting licence, data retention, Search Console, API and MCP access. Checked 10 Oct 2026.
- SiteLine vs SEOGets: GSC history and price — SiteLine vs SEOGets on Search Console history past 16 months, row limits, MCP and price. Core is now per site. Checked 26 Oct 2026.
- BigQuery vs hosted Search Console archive — BigQuery bulk export is forward-only. A hosted Search Console archive backfills Google's live window, keeps history while you subscribe, and adds UI/MCP.
- Search Console API vs MCP — The Search Console API is how software fetches rows. MCP is how an agent asks questions. SiteLine fills a warehouse via the API, then serves it over MCP.
- Fathom vs Simple Analytics — Fathom and Simple Analytics are hosted cookieless traffic tools. Compare dashboards, site limits and blocker bypass. Search Console history is another job.
- Matomo vs GA4 with Search Console — Matomo vs GA4 comparisons skip Search Console. Neither keeps GSC past 16 months or beyond the 1,000-row UI. Here is the comparison with both ledgers.
- Plausible vs Fathom — Plausible and Fathom are both cookieless traffic analytics. The split is open source and self-hosting versus hosted polish, and what you need from GSC.
- Plausible vs Matomo: cookieless or full platform — Plausible is a cookieless one-screen dashboard. Matomo is a full platform with cookies on by default, a tag manager, page overlay and heatmaps.
- SiteLine vs Fathom: archive or overlay — Fathom shows Search Console in its dashboard for the window Google still holds. SiteLine copies it daily and keeps it. Prices, privacy and limits compared.
- SiteLine vs Matomo: hosted or self-run — Matomo is a full analytics suite you can run yourself for free. SiteLine is narrower and hosted: cookieless traffic plus a stored Search Console copy.
- SiteLine vs Mixpanel — Mixpanel is event analytics for identified users. SiteLine is cookieless website analytics plus a Search Console import. Pick the job, not the logo.
- SiteLine vs Plausible — Plausible is cookieless traffic analytics. SiteLine adds a durable Search Console import: 16-month backfill, 25k rows a day, kept while you subscribe.
- SiteLine vs PostHog — PostHog is product analytics: profiles, replay, flags. SiteLine is cookieless site analytics plus Search Console history. Different jobs, not a bake-off.
- SiteLine vs Simple Analytics — Simple Analytics is cookieless traffic reporting. SiteLine covers that job and stores Google Search Console history past 16 months, at 25,000 rows per day.
- SiteLine vs Umami: hosted or self-hosted — Umami is lightweight, often self-hosted web analytics. SiteLine is hosted cookieless analytics plus a Search Console import kept while you subscribe.