Plausible Analytics: Self-Hosted CE

Plausible CE is the self-hosted community edition of Plausible Analytics. It’s an excellent GDPR-compliant alternative to Google Analytics, but a few things differ from the cloud version.

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The 404 tracking plugin does not exist in CE

The 404 error page tracking extension is not available in self-hosted Plausible CE. The UI lets you select it, but the resulting script URL does not exist on the server (returns HTTP 404).

Valid script extensions:

script.js
script.outbound-links.js
script.tagged-events.js
script.outbound-links.tagged-events.js
script.file-downloads.js
script.outbound-links.tagged-events.file-downloads.js

Test any combination before deploying:

curl -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}" https://plausible.yourdomain.com/js/script.EXTENSIONS.js

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CSP must include Plausible in both script-src and connect-src

If your site has a Content Security Policy, Plausible needs to be in two directives:

script-src ... https://plausible.yourdomain.com;
connect-src ... https://plausible.yourdomain.com;

Missing either one causes silent failure — no error to the user, just no tracking.