Fathom Analytics

Fathom Analytics occupies similar territory to Plausible: a paid, privacy respecting web analytics tool that skips cookies and individual tracking while still showing you the basics, visitors, top pages, referral sources, and time on site.

For a podcaster running a website alongside the show, this is a solid pick if privacy and a clean interface matter more than granular behavioral data. Setup is a single script tag, nothing complicated.

As with all website analytics tools, it has no visibility into your actual podcast listens. If a guest asks how many people heard the episode, this tool can't answer that, only your podcast host's dashboard can.

Worth comparing against Plausible directly since they solve the same problem, the choice mostly comes down to interface preference and small pricing differences.