# GoatCounter

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/goatcounter/  
**Website:** https://www.goatcounter.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 6

GoatCounter is open-source, privacy-friendly web analytics from Martin Tournoij, offered both as a free donation-supported hosted service at goatcounter.com and as a self-hostable Go binary backed by SQLite or PostgreSQL. It tracks pageviews without cookies or persistent personal identifiers. The unversioned JSON API, prefixed /api/v0 and served from each account's own subdomain, covers counting pageviews and events from a backend, reading dashboard statistics (totals, per-path hits, referrals, browser/system/location breakdowns), running asynchronous CSV and JSON exports with an incremental hit-ID cursor, and managing sites and users. Authentication is a per-site API key sent as an HTTP bearer token, and the provider publishes its own OpenAPI 2.0 contract at https://www.goatcounter.com/api.json.

## Kin Score — 57.0 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 57.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 52.2 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 52.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 61.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 73.7 |
| Access Clarity | 73.7 |

## Agent readiness — 36.1 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Free (donation-supported) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: free, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (6)

- **GoatCounter Exports API** — The Exports API from GoatCounter — 3 operation(s) for exports.
- **GoatCounter Pageviews API** — The Pageviews API from GoatCounter — 1 operation(s) for pageviews.
- **GoatCounter Paths API** — The Paths API from GoatCounter — 1 operation(s) for paths.
- **GoatCounter Sites API** — The Sites API from GoatCounter — 2 operation(s) for sites.
- **GoatCounter Statistics API** — The Statistics API from GoatCounter — 5 operation(s) for statistics.
- **GoatCounter Users API** — The Users API from GoatCounter — 1 operation(s) for users.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Goatcounter Agentic Access** — 16 operations · 5 acting

## Security (3)

- **Goatcounter Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Goatcounter Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC
- **Goatcounter Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

## Plans (1)

- **Goatcounter Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Analytics, Page Views, Privacy, Statistics, Web Analytics, Open-Source, Self-Hosted, Event, Data Export, Developer Tools

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/goatcounter/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.