Nodium and Fathom
Fathom and Nodium both count visitors without cookies, on one simple page. Nodium adds a read of your own forms, plain-English insights and weekly checks of your pages. Here's where they differ.
Facts checked on October 23, 2026, each against its source. Every number links to where it came from.
Side by side
| What | Nodium | Fathom | Better at this |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free trial | 30 days with everything, no card.1 | 7 days, with a card.2 | Nodium |
| Counting without cookies | No cookies and nothing stored on the device. A visitor is a daily key made from the IP address, the browser and your site, and the IP address is never stored.3 | A SHA-256 signature of the IP address, the browser, the site and a salt that changes at midnight UTC, with no analytics cookies.4 | About even |
| Form analysis | Reads each form on your own site field by field, never what anyone types: who saw it, who started it, who sent it (where your site shows a send), the field where people stop and the fields the form marked wrong. Nothing to set up.5 | Counts your own form's submissions as an event you add yourself, in the form's code or in a script below it.6 We didn't find form starts or fields on that page. | Nodium |
| Insights in plain English | “What we noticed”: insights from written rules, each with how it was counted. No AI.7 | We didn't find this on Fathom's pages. | Nodium |
| Search, speed and accessibility checks | Weekly search, speed and accessibility checks, with a fix list.8 | We didn't find this on Fathom's pages. | Nodium |
| Email reports | A Monday email with the week's figures, notes and fixes.9 | Weekly on Mondays or monthly, as many as you like, a snapshot of your stats.10 | Nodium |
When to pick Nodium
Pick Nodium if your site is there to get people to call, email or send a form. It reads your own forms for you, with nothing to add to them, says what it noticed in insights with their methods, and checks your pages every week. You can try all of it without a card.
Sources
- Nodium: Pricing, opened October 18, 2026
- Fathom Analytics: Pricing, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Privacy on your site, opened October 18, 2026
- Fathom Analytics: Our data journey, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What the script reads, opened October 23, 2026
- Fathom docs: Track form submissions, opened October 23, 2026
- Nodium Docs: What we noticed, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: Weekly site checks, opened October 18, 2026
- Nodium Docs: The weekly report, opened October 18, 2026
- Fathom docs: Email reports, opened October 20, 2026
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