Europe
Beacons in Frankfurt. Rows in Ireland.
No cookies, just insights. Made and hosted in the EU. 🇪🇺 The counts you care about live in the EU. That is a product choice, not a checkbox on a US vendor’s trust centre.
What the split is
Plausible’s public line adds “powered by European-owned infrastructure.” They pick EU-owned vendors. We host in EU regions — Frankfurt functions, Ireland Postgres. Vercel is still a US company. The pageviews do not leave the EU. That is the honest version of the same sentence.
Beacons hit Vercel in Frankfurt. Pageviews are stored in Postgres in the EU — Ireland (eu-west-1), not Virginia. We do not forward rows to an advertising graph. The compute region is pinned in git so it cannot silently drift to a US function.
What we will not pretend
Sign-in with Google or X leaves our region — those companies are the identity provider. A Turnstile check on email login, when it runs, is Cloudflare — not a pageview export, and not Google reCAPTCHA. Marketing type is self-hosted (Newsreader and Source Sans), not a public font CDN. None of those is your visitors’ pageview history. The history stays in the EU.
We also will not say “GDPR compliant” as if that were a sticker. Cookie Free Analytics is designed so a cookie banner is not required for this script. Your counsel still owns the final call for your site.
Why it matters
EU sites have spent a decade explaining US transfers to visitors who only wanted a recipe. Putting the counter in the EU is the boring way to stop having that conversation about analytics.