# Migrating from Simple Analytics to self-hosted Plausible

DevFeed: [Migrating from Simple Analytics to self-hosted Plausible](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/migrating-from-simple-analytics-to-self-hosted-plausible-38549.md>)

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Author: Harsh Shandilya

Published: 2025-04-22T11:13:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Posts on Harsh Shandilya](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/posts-on-harsh-shandilya.md>)

Topics: [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [Self-hosted](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/self-hosted.md>), [Netlify](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/netlify.md>), [clickhouse](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/clickhouse.md>), [CSV](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/csv.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [PHP](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/php.md>)

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## AI overview

A personal account of migrating a blog from Simple Analytics to self-hosted Plausible on a netcup server running NixOS. The article covers choosing Plausible over Matomo, configuring the service, replacing the website's analytics snippet, improving privacy for visitors who disable JavaScript, and beginning the migration of exported historical data.

## Source excerpt

Documenting the misadventures of self-hosting my site analytics