Case Study: Plausible Analytics achieves lightning-fast analytics dashboards with ClickHouse

Plausible Analytics uses ClickHouse to power their privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

Plausible Analytics, an open-source, privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics, needed a database that could keep up with rapidly growing web traffic and analytics volume. Their original Postgres-based architecture could no longer support future growth, especially as they scaled to thousands of paying customers and over 1 billion page views per month.

Plausible Analytics switched to ClickHouse, which dramatically improved dashboard performance and scalability. With ClickHouse, dashboard load times dropped from about 5 seconds to under 1 second, enabling Plausible to serve even its largest customers, including one generating 150 million page views per month, and supporting the company’s continued growth.

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