Clicky

YES

Replaceable in one session with an AI coding agent.

Real-time web analytics with a visitor-level view: rather than only totals, you can watch individual sessions arrive and see the pages each one moved through.

Promptfree, for everyone, and the only version there is

Build me real-time web analytics with a visitor trail.

STACK
- One collection endpoint, SQLite with WAL, and a dashboard page
- Server-sent events for the live view — no websocket, no polling loop

COLLECT
- Path, referrer host, coarse device and browser bucket, language, timestamp
- Visitor identity is a salted hash of IP and user agent rotated daily; raw values are never stored

THE LIVE VIEW
- An SSE stream pushing each new view as it lands
- The page keeps the last 100 in memory and draws them newest first
- Reconnects on its own and backfills the gap by timestamp

SESSION TRAILS
- A session is one visitor hash with gaps under 30 minutes
- Compute it at query time with a window function, do not store a session table

THE DASHBOARD
- Today, last 7 days, last 30: views, visitors, top pages, top referrers
- One SQL view carrying the bot and asset filtering so it lives in one place

Include the schema, the SSE endpoint and a README on the retention window.

What you lose

A live view that updates continuously, which is a different engineering problem from a daily total
Per-visitor session trails already stitched together
Uptime monitoring and heatmaps bundled alongside the analytics
Long history retained without you paying for the storage separately

If you would rather not build

A tail of your own access log, which answers more of this than people expect

The escape hatch

open source · no votes, no paid placement

Umami

Self-hosted analytics with a live view and a small footprint.

umami-software/umamifree · open source

Plausible

Cookie-free analytics, self-hostable with Docker.

plausible/analyticsfree · open source

Why this verdict

our own opinion · changed only by a person

80/100

Verdict yes at 80. The live stream is the only part that needs thought, and server-sent events make it about thirty lines.

History

tracked since 10 Aug 2026 · nothing is ever overwritten

Interest · last 30 days

Nothing recorded yet. This chart fills in once the page has visitors, votes or prompt copies — it will not draw a flat line to look busy.

Questions about Clicky

answered from the record above

Is Clicky free?

No — the plan we track is $9.99 a month. Pro at $9.99/month billed monthly, for one site and 30,000 daily page views.

Can you replace Clicky by building your own?

YES. Replaceable in one session with an AI coding agent. Replacement score 80 out of 100, build time one session. Read what you lose before you decide.

How much does Clicky cost?

$9.99 a month on Pro — $119.88 a year. Recorded 9 Aug 2026.

What do you lose by replacing Clicky?

A live view that updates continuously, which is a different engineering problem from a daily total; Per-visitor session trails already stitched together; Uptime monitoring and heatmaps bundled alongside the analytics; Long history retained without you paying for the storage separately. If any of those carry weight for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to Clicky?

Yes: Umami, Plausible. The prompt on this page is for when you want it your way instead.

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