Built by someone who got tired of renting analytics.
Kantan is a small, independent project with a simple belief: the data about your own visitors should live on your own server — readable, private, and yours.
Hi. I’m Joel, and that’s me at Himeji Castle in the fall of 2025. I love Japan. In 1998 I was called to serve as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Nagoya, Japan for 2 years. Since returning home in 2000 I’ve been back several times and I’m always planning my next adventure. I love speaking Japanese any time I have an opportunity.
What does that have to do with Kantan Analytics & SEO? Not much other than Kantan means simple in Japanese.
I’ve been building websites since the early 2000s and spent most of that time in WordPress. I love building on WordPress. Kantan is my first contribution back to the community and I’m hoping to make it be very beneficial to many many users!
There’s just something so satisfying about being self-reliant and in total control. WordPress lets you host your site wherever you want. Build it any way you want. And tweak it however you want. And now you can bring some of your most important data right into the database you own and you control — no more giving it away to some massive 3rd party that keeps all the best secrets from you.
Own your data. Forever. It’s just that simple.
Own your analytics.
Install the free plugin in about five minutes. No account, no cookie banner, no data leaving your server.