SearchSeal vs Fathom Analytics
Fathom is hosted privacy-first website analytics with a single dashboard, events, revenue values, campaign reporting and cookie-free collection.
Fathom and SearchSeal both provide simple cookie-free website analytics with events and revenue. Fathom deliberately filters bots from its human dashboard. SearchSeal keeps human analytics separate and preserves AI crawler requests as their own evidence.
Fathom Analytics measures
- Visitors, views, referrers, campaigns, devices, countries and live traffic
- Custom event conversions and ecommerce revenue values
- Aggregated human website activity without cookies or personal profiles
- Human traffic with bots and crawlers filtered from the dashboard
SearchSeal measures
- Pageviews, privacy-safe daily visitors and sessions, and acquisition sources
- Human referrals from AI products, goals, conversion rates and same-day attributed revenue
- Real requests from AI crawlers, including requested paths and HTTP outcomes
- Observed evidence with explicit limits: crawler unknown is never rendered as zero
Side by side
Primary job
Fathom Analytics
Simple hosted privacy-first analytics
SearchSeal
Simple analytics plus separate AI crawler evidence
Human analytics
Fathom Analytics
Cookie-free aggregate traffic, events and campaign reporting
SearchSeal
Cookie-free daily visitors, sessions, sources, goals and revenue
Bots
Fathom Analytics
Filtered out to keep the dashboard focused on humans
SearchSeal
Excluded from human analytics and retained in a separate crawler module
Revenue
Fathom Analytics
Revenue values attached to event conversions
SearchSeal
Same-day revenue attributed to goals and acquisition sources
Hosting
Fathom Analytics
Hosted service with EU isolation for EU visitor data
SearchSeal
Hosted service with connected browser and crawler sources
When Fathom Analytics fits
You want a mature hosted privacy analytics product, long data retention, client reporting and event-based revenue in a focused dashboard.
When SearchSeal fits
You want comparable simple analytics while also retaining a separate record of AI crawler requests and access outcomes.
Both simplify human analytics. SearchSeal adds the crawler evidence Fathom filters out.
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Simple website analytics with AI visibility built in
See visitors, sources, goals, revenue, and AI referrals, plus separate crawler evidence.
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