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PostHog

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Sets cookies
Yes
Sends PII
No
Cross-site tracking
No
Consent required
Analytics
Transfer mechanism
Standard Contractual Clauses
Cookies
ph_XXXXX_posthog

Overview

Open-source product analytics platform providing event tracking, session replay, feature flags, A/B testing, and surveys. Offers self-hosted and cloud deployment options. Designed for product teams with a developer-focused approach.

Detection capabilities

Signature count
2
Detection methods
network
Property types
hostnamepathname

Performance impact

Performance Impact

Script size
80 KB
Requests per page
2

Common mistakes

  • 1Enabling session replay without separate explicit consent, bundling it with basic analytics
  • 2Not selecting EU cloud hosting when processing EU user data on PostHog Cloud
  • 3Sending personal data in event properties when anonymous identifiers would suffice

Compliance considerations

Collects user events, session data, and optionally session recordings. Self-hosted deployments provide full data control. Cloud (US or EU) processes data on PostHog infrastructure. Session replay requires explicit consent. Event analytics require analytics consent. Feature flags may be functional. Configure distinct consent requirements for each feature set.

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