Analytics built to last.

Why Clickport exists

Hi, I'm David. I've been a developer for over 20 years. I've built content sites, affiliate projects, and client work across every stack imaginable. Through all of it, I wanted to understand what visitors actually did. Not just pageviews and bounce rates, but real behavior: how far they scrolled, what they clicked, whether the content was working.

I used Google Analytics like everyone else. It was fine for years. Then GA4 came along, and the tool I relied on became something I couldn't recommend to my own clients. Cookie banners, consent flows, data sent to US servers, and a dashboard that needed a certification to understand.

So I looked at the alternatives. The privacy-friendly ones were simple and clean but too shallow. They could tell me how many visitors I had, but not what those visitors did.

I wanted both: privacy that's built into the architecture, and analytics deep enough to make decisions with. Engagement scores, scroll tracking, session timelines, goal attribution, copy detection. The things that tell you whether your content is working, not just whether someone showed up.

So I built it.

Who's behind this

David Karpik

Founder, developer, designer

Senior software engineer and data analyst based in Braunschweig, Germany. I write the code, design the dashboard, handle support, and write the blog posts. Every feature in Clickport exists because I needed it myself or a user asked for it.

I build Clickport full-time, and I run it the way I'd want a vendor of mine to run. When you email support, you're talking to the person who wrote the code. When something breaks, the fix doesn't travel through a ticket queue, a sprint board, and a release committee. It goes through me, usually the same day. When you request a feature, you're talking to the person who decides.

Independence is also a stability argument. Clickport is customer-funded and built for decades, not for an exit. There's no venture runway that can expire, no acquirer waiting to sunset the product, no pivot that leaves you migrating analytics tools twice in three years. The tools that disappear are rarely the focused independent ones. They're the funded ones that ran out of patience.

How Clickport is run

A one-founder company can still run like serious infrastructure. Here's what that looks like in practice, with links you can check rather than adjectives you have to trust:

• European infrastructure, daily backups. Visitor data lives on Hetzner servers in Germany with automated daily backups. It never leaves the EU.
• Uptime you can watch. Availability is monitored externally and published on the status page. Automated health checks watch the data pipeline around the clock and alert me the moment anything drifts.
• Security in writing. Practices and infrastructure details live on the security page, and there's a signed-ready Data Processing Agreement for your compliance folder. Dashboard accounts support two-factor authentication and remote session management.
• Procurement-friendly. Billing and invoicing run through Paddle as merchant of record. SSO (SAML/OIDC) is available on enterprise plans. If your legal or IT team has questions, write to me and you'll get an answer from the founder, usually within a day.
• No lock-in, ever. Full CSV export of everything, any time, on every plan. If you ever leave, your data leaves with you. That's not a courtesy, it's a design constraint.

Principles

• Privacy is architecture, not a setting. Clickport doesn't collect personal data, doesn't set cookies, and doesn't store IP addresses. There's no privacy toggle because there's nothing to toggle. It's built this way from the ground up.
• Your visitors came for your content, not to be profiled. They deserve to browse without being tracked across the web. You deserve to know what's working on your site. Both things can be true at the same time.
• Customer-funded means customer-aligned. Clickport is funded entirely by subscriptions. No investors, no ad revenue, no data sales. The only people I answer to are the people who pay for the product.
• Simple doesn't mean shallow. A clean dashboard and deep analytics aren't mutually exclusive. Clickport gives you engagement scores, goal tracking, session timelines, scroll depth, copy detection, and rage and dead click detection. All on one page, no training required.

Boundaries

• No cookies. Not "optional cookies" or "strictly necessary cookies." Zero.
• No personal data collection. No names, emails, or browser fingerprints. IP addresses are hashed with a daily rotating salt, then discarded. Details in the privacy policy.
• No data shared with third parties. Your analytics data stays on our server in Germany. No sub-processors ever touch it.
• No consent banners needed. Because Clickport doesn't track personal data, the ePrivacy Directive doesn't require consent. Full GDPR compliance details. Your visitors see your site, not a wall of checkboxes.
• No investors, no board, no exit strategy. Clickport is built to last, not to flip. There's no one pressuring me to raise prices, cut corners, or monetize your data.

Made and hosted in Germany

Clickport is built in Braunschweig, Germany. Your analytics data is stored on a Hetzner server in Germany. It never leaves the EU. No Schrems II concerns, no US data transfers, no CLOUD Act exposure.

European-owned infrastructure exclusively for visitor data. The only sub-processors that touch customer data (not visitor data) are Resend for transactional emails and Paddle for payments. Full details in the Data Processing Agreement.

What's inside

Clickport is a full analytics platform, not a pageview counter. Here's what's built and shipping today:

• Dashboard with 8 KPIs, weekday-aware comparisons, and cross-filtering across all panels
• Engagement tracking with scroll depth, time on page, copy detection, and a combined engagement score per page
• Goal conversions for clicks, form submissions, and custom events with revenue attribution
• Realtime view with 30-second auto-refresh and a 30-minute activity window
• PDF and CSV export for sharing reports with clients or stakeholders
• Session drill-down with individual session timelines, goal badges, rage and dead click detection, and visitor journeys
• Sources, countries, cities, technology, campaigns, pages, outbound links, and hourly breakdowns

Full documentation at /docs. Setup takes under 2 minutes. See what's new on our updates page.