Jetpack Stats vs PostHog

Jetpack Stats provides a dashboard for understanding website audiences, traffic, and content performance. It reports real-time visitors, likes, comments, referrers, visitor countries, link clicks, video plays, and file downloads. Content views include top posts and pages, author performance, publishing trends, 7-day Highlights, and Year in Review. Stats can also show subscriber counts and social follower totals, surface WooCommerce orders and product trends, and monitor Jetpack Ads earnings. The free Jetpack mobile app supports monitoring on iOS and Android, while the product is also listed for web and API use. Jetpack says Stats can be used alongside Google Analytics on the same WordPress installation, and that data can be downloaded as CSV. Data retention is unlimited. The pricing model is freemium, with a free plan; the listed Free plan costs nothing. Free Stats is described as for personal sites, while paid Stats starts at 10,000 monthly site views. Jetpack is among Automattic’s products; Jetpack has operated since 2005, and its headquarters are in San Francisco, California, USA.

PostHog is a platform for building products, communicating with customers, and understanding customer data. Its suite includes product and web analytics, funnels, heatmaps, graphs and trends, lifecycle analysis, and user paths. Session Replay records sessions from web, React Native, iOS, Android, Flutter, and other SDKs. Feature Flags can target users, groups, or traffic percentages and support phased rollouts, kill switches, multivariate variants, JSON payloads, and beta opt-ins. An integrated data warehouse can use external sources such as Snowflake or BigQuery. PostHog CDP transforms events in real time and sends them to more than 50 destinations, including webhooks, Slack, Braze, and Customer.io. PostHog Desktop is a coding agent that can use product signals such as errors, support tickets, session replays, GitHub issues, Linear, and Zendesk to investigate causes and create pull requests. The free plan includes one year of event and metadata retention; free recordings are kept for one month. Paid plans guarantee seven years of event and metadata retention. PostHog also describes an open-source product licensed under MIT.