Has anyone transitioned from Google Analytics 4 to self-hosted cookieless analytics?
We are fed up with GA4's clunky interface, 48-hour data processing delays, and intrusive cookie consent banners that reduce conversion rates by 8-12% in Europe.
We're testing MetricPulse and Plausible. How has data parity been for those who made the switch? Do you miss multi-touch attribution or has the speed and simplicity of cookieless tracking been a net win?
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We switched to MetricPulse 6 months ago. The biggest shock was page weight: the GA4 tag was ~45KB and running heavy JS parsing, while MetricPulse is under 1.2KB. Our Google PageSpeed score jumped from 84 to 98 immediately, which gave us an organic SEO lift. Also, removing the cookie banner increased our sign-up conversion rate by 11.4% in Germany and France.
That conversion lift is huge. We just grabbed the 35% recurring discount code on SaaSFolio (AGENCY35REC) and deployed the tag. Real-time dashboard is already refreshing in sub-second time. Thank you!
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