counter.dev
Ahoy
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GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT License |
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counter.dev
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Ask HN: Is Counter.dev Down?
> Rather than what looks to be an unproven pet project of some developer. If nobody is paying for it, there are no guarantees of uptime or support.
It's pay what you want. The project is running for three years already, let's see how things go with time.
Apologies for the long downtime. The issue is being resolved, see here for updates:
- https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev/issues/124
- Ask HN: What do you use to track visitors on your blog?
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Looking for a free Google Analytics alternative for my side projects
- counter.dev -> Something that I need but it has a lack of accuracy and very tiny functionality.
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Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
> Right, and being sessionStorage it's cleared on browser close, and the next time I visit I will be counted as another daily unique visitor right?
No! There are a few rudimentary mechanisms on top of each other if one of them fails as you described. The /track endpoint sets up http caching. So if sessionStorage fails, you still have that. Then there is also inspecting document.referrer. If it is the page you are already on, then it's definitely not a unique visit.
> (or why not just a cookie)
Because cookies are considered "bad". But technically basically just saving a boolean value on the cookie would not be worse from a privacy perspective than using sessionStorage for a boolean value.
> I personally would rather have the pages I visit use a self-hosted solution gather everything I do, instead of a third-party getting little data from many sites I use. If this script is used across many sites it can be checked server-side against my IP to get my usage. I can never verify what logs they keep and for how long.
That is a general problem with externally hosted services. You can audit the source code (https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev) but there is not way to verify that my deployment is as stated. I heard a podcast once that web hosters could guarantee that a deployment is in a specific way and contains a specific code base revision. But such solutions unfortunately do not exist. If you really want to be sure self hosting is the way to go (but somewhat cumbersome)
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Simple alternative to Google Analytics
I think you can go with counter.dev
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Sensible blocking
I am providing a free and open source web analytics service: https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev / counter.dev
- Counter.dev: Web Analytics made simple
- Counter: Free and Open Source, Privacy Respecting Web Analytics
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Introducing the Privacy Sandbox on Android
From their Github.
Ahoy
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Ahoy Captain: a full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard
A full-featured, mountable analytics dashboard for your Rails app, which is a blatant rip-off of heavily inspired by Plausible Analytics, powered by Ahoy. Open source, though lots of changing parts: https://github.com/joshmn/ahoy_captain
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Best rails tools to automatically handle logging of things like all a user's actions, or changes to a record in a module - primarily for audit purposes.
For logging which functions were used you can use ahoy
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How would you build an audit log in Rails for a high-throughput API?
Ahoy may be worth a try https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
- Want to keep track of URL visits, what's the simplest way to do achieve this?
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Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
I've slowly started ripping Google Analytics out of my Rails projects and replacing it with https://github.com/ankane/ahoy.
It's so much better! I can just use SQL to see what's going in and not get overwhelmed with 100's of visualizations and complicated dashboards.
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Need some good documentation on implementation or tutorial video for AHOY gem
it's just a database table, so yeah, a migration is fine: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy/issues/461
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Make Ahoy Queries faster?
I'm using the ahoy gem for analytics on my website (https://github.com/ankane/ahoy).
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Cookie-based tracking is dead
I did server-side tracking test in a rails app, where I implemented a tracking gem called ahoy and blazer for visualization. It is very easy to set up, but a bit hard to use. Blazer can do a very basic visualization of the data if you know your SQL queries.
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How would you build/record/store analytics data ;
https://github.com/ankane/ahoy The ahoy gem is pretty useful for this. Data model is pretty simple, it will track unique user sessions and metrics you specify will be associated with these sessions. The gem also parses the user agent, so it will indicate whether a session was on mobile, desktop or tablet.
What are some alternatives?
GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
Impressionist - Rails Plugin that tracks impressions and page views
DevUtils-app - All-in-one Toolbox for Developers. Native macOS app.
Legato - Google Analytics Reporting API Client for Ruby
fugu - Fugu is simple, privacy-friendly, open-source and self-hostable product analytics. 🐡
active_analytics - First-party, privacy-focused traffic analytics for Ruby on Rails applications.
Matomo - Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!
Staccato - Ruby library to perform server-side tracking into the official Google Analytics Measurement Protocol
Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
Gabba - Simple way to send server-side notifications to Google Analytics
Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
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