meerkatagency.xyz Pricing Page: You May Have the Wrong Meerkat

You searched for the pricing page of meerkatagency.xyz and you have landed on Crafty Meerkat, which is not the same company. We don't run that domain, we have no relationship with whoever does, and we can't tell you what they charge. Anything we said about their prices would be a guess, and a guess is worse than useless when you're about to spend money. The quickest way to get the real answer is to type that domain straight into your browser's address bar and look for a link marked Pricing or Plans, either in the menu across the top or in the small print at the very bottom of the page. If there isn't one anywhere, that almost always means the pricing is quoted per project rather than published, and you'll need to send an email and wait a day or two for a number.

If you ended up here because the names collided and what you actually want is a clear answer on what website analytics costs — analytics being the tool that tells you how many people visited your site, where they came from, and what they did while they were there — then this is the paragraph that matters. Crafty Meerkat is website analytics with a built-in AI advisor: it records the usual visitor numbers, then once a week sends you a short ranked list of specific things to change on your site. There is a free plan that doesn't ask for a card, paid plans metered by how many pages get viewed on your site each month, and every feature available on every paid plan rather than parcelled out by tier. The actual figures are on the pricing page. The rest of this post is about how to read that page, or anybody else's, without being caught out.

Meerkats are a popular choice for a company name, and search engines are not always careful about which one you meant. The only reliable check is the address bar at the top of your browser. Read the bit between the https:// and the first forward slash. If it doesn't say exactly the domain you were looking for, you're somewhere else, however similar the logo looks.

This matters more than it sounds. The same confusion is how people end up entering card details on a site that merely resembles the one they wanted. We're not suggesting anything sinister is happening here — it's just a name overlap — but the habit of reading the address bar before you type anything sensitive is a good one to keep.

Shape matters more than the headline figure, because the shape is what determines whether your bill stays where you expect it. Ours works three ways.

First, there's a free plan that runs on a real site with real traffic. It isn't a fourteen-day trial that quietly expires while you're on holiday. If your site is small and you only want to know how many people turned up last week and which page they looked at, you can sit on the free plan indefinitely and never hear from us about it.

Second, paid plans are metered by monthly pageviews — a pageview being one person loading one page, once. Not visitors, not clicks, not "users". If a customer lands on your home page, reads your services page, then opens your contact page, that's three pageviews from one person. We explain how we count them, and the edge cases, in the docs on pageviews.

Third, features aren't used as a lever. Weekly advice, the site crawler, uptime checks, the chat where you ask questions of your own data in plain English — these aren't held back for a higher tier. You pay for the size of your traffic, not for permission to use the parts of the product that are actually helpful. Extra team members don't change the price either, which matters if your bookkeeper or the person who built your site needs to log in occasionally.

The first is per-seat charging. The advertised price is for one login, and every additional person costs the same again. A bakery owner with a manager and a part-time marketing helper suddenly finds the cheap tool costs three times what the page said. Check whether the price covers the account or the person.

The second is the retention cliff. Some tools keep your history for a limited window on lower plans — say, the last few months — and then quietly bin it. You discover this in January when you want to compare against last January and find there is no last January. If you run a seasonal business, how far back the data goes is arguably more important than the monthly cost. Ask the question before you sign up, not eighteen months in.

The third is export. If the tool makes it awkward to get your own numbers out, you're not really a customer, you're a tenant. Any analytics service worth paying for should let you download your data as a spreadsheet whenever you like, and ours does — see the notes on exporting your data. The point is not that you'll use it weekly. The point is that being able to leave keeps everyone honest.

Three different tools can all show you the same number and charge for it completely differently, because they're counting different things. One counts pageviews. One counts events, where an event is any recorded action — a page loading, a button being clicked, a form being sent, a PDF being downloaded. One counts unique visitors, which is roughly the number of distinct people rather than the number of page loads.

The event-based model is the one that surprises people. If a tool automatically records every click on every link, a site with a chatty menu and a lot of internal links can generate five or ten events for every single page someone reads. The headline allowance looks generous and then isn't. If a pricing page is denominated in events, the only question worth asking is: how many events does a typical visit to a site like mine produce? If they can't answer that plainly, that's an answer in itself.

It's also worth knowing that detailed tracking of specific actions — a quote request submitted, a booking started — is something you usually set up deliberately rather than getting by default, so it's within your control how much of it you generate.

Most small business sites get far less traffic than their owners assume, and that's not an insult — it's just that the figures thrown around online are from companies in a different league. A solicitor's firm in a market town, a plumber covering three postcodes, a freelance designer with a portfolio: these sites very often sit in the low thousands of pageviews a month, sometimes the low hundreds. That usually means the cheapest paid tier, or the free one.

If you already have any analytics installed, find the figure for pageviews or page loads over the last full month and write it down. If you have nothing at all, a rough and slightly crude estimate is to take the number of enquiries or orders you got from the website last month and multiply by somewhere between thirty and a hundred, depending on how much you sell for. That range is broad on purpose — it's a sanity check from general experience, not a measurement.

Then double it, to leave room for a good month, and that's the plan size you should be pricing against. Picking a tier three sizes up "to be safe" is how people end up paying for capacity they'll never touch.

Send that list by email and see how the replies compare. Speed and plainness of answer tells you a surprising amount about what support will be like later, when you have a real problem at nine on a Monday morning.

On the last question: tools that don't follow people across the wider internet generally don't need a consent banner in the same way, which is one of the quieter advantages of the privacy-first approach. It's worth asking rather than assuming, because the answer varies by tool and by what you've configured.

A lot of people searching for analytics pricing are really asking a different question: why would I pay for something when Google gives it away? That's a fair question and it has an honest answer, which is that the free tool isn't free of cost — it's free of invoice. The cost shows up as the hour you lose every time you need a number out of it, and the months where you don't look at all because opening it feels like homework.

Whether that trade is worth it depends entirely on how often you actually need answers and how much your own hour is worth. We've set out the differences, including where the free option genuinely wins, on the Crafty Meerkat versus Google Analytics page. If you run a large ecommerce operation with a dedicated marketing person, the free tool with all its depth may well be the right call. If you're a one-person business who wants to know what to fix this week, it probably isn't.

If you came here looking for one company's pricing page and found another's, the useful thing to take away isn't a price at all. It's a sense of whether your website is doing its job, because that's what decides whether any of this is worth spending on.

Our free website report card will look at your site and come back with a plain-English list of what's working and what's holding it back — loading speed, broken links, pages search engines can't find their way to, and the ordinary structural things that quietly cost you enquiries. It takes a couple of minutes and doesn't require installing anything. If the report comes back clean, you've saved yourself a subscription. If it doesn't, at least you'll know what you're buying a tool to fix.