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GoAccess | Plausible Analytics | |
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76 | 302 | |
17,434 | 18,213 | |
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9.2 | 9.8 | |
9 days ago | about 9 hours ago | |
C | Elixir | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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GoAccess
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You don't need analytics on your blog
If one wants server-side metrics with a little more info than the author's "hacky little script", there's always goaccess [1], which functions in broadly the same way. I even use it with Firebase Hosting-hosted sites via [2] (which I wrote).
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Using Analytics on My Website
> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake.
GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/
Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing.
That said, I'd still say that the analytics solutions out there, especially self-hostable ones like Matomo, are quite nice and can have both UIs that are very easy to interact with for the average person (e.g. filtering data by date range, or by page/view that was interacted with), as well as have a plethora of different datasets: https://matomo.org/features/
I think it can be useful to have a look at what sorts of devices are mostly being used to interact with your site, what operating systems and browsers are in use, how people navigate through the site, where do they enter the site from and how they find it, what the front end performance is like, or even how your e-commerce site is doing, at a glance, in addition to seeing how this changes over time.
People have also said good things about Plausible Analytics as well: https://plausible.io/
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How do {you} analyze apache log files?
Maybe, if it's just local and need just information, maybe https://goaccess.io is an option.
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Show HN: Why Google Analytics May Not Be the Best Option for Your Website (2023)
I run goaccess on a cron job and have paired it with a MaxMind GeoIP database so that you can see where people are coming from etc.
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Working on Ubuntu: File does not exist on the server, how to create it
file on GitHub.
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Display real time visitors statistics of a website
There is small programm for linux https://goaccess.io/
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Monitoring traefik access logs easily
I heard about https://goaccess.io/ (and even tested it) but first, nothing about tracing logs, and I think that the provided HTML dashboard isn't enough security-oriented for me but it's more about monitoring your customer volume... It does -partially- fit my case.
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Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy
Loved AWStats! Still can be useful — but bots, client side caching, CDNs, and did I mention bots..? have made the data hard to rely on for much. A while ago I switched from AWStats to GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) for this kind of thing. I prefer its interface, and it's way way faster to churn through big log files (C vs. Perl).
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Show HN: Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier
matomo and goatcounter are nice, but there are even solutions which don't need any extra CPU or any extra client request:
Both of them are free/open-source.
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Setup GoAccess in Ubuntu/Linux with Docker and Real-Cad & access over domain/sub-domain
GoAccess is a powerful web log analyzer that generates real-time web traffic statistics.
Plausible Analytics
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Plausible as an alternative to Google Analytics
I just swapped out Google Analytics with Plausible for AINIRO.IO. It’s only been a week, but so far I am super jazzed about it. First of all, Plausible doesn’t use cookies, so I can completely drop all cookie disclaimers and popups I had because of GDPR. Second of all, the site scores significantly better on load time. This results in a 10x better user experience for my website visitors, while making sure the website is still 100% conforming to GDPR laws.
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Simple no bs persistent notepad
No clue what you mean, browser cache might even clear itself without you doing anything manually. This thing makes no sense.
Nowhere ever did it say Tech Demo anywhere, not in the HN headline, not on the page itself. No, thanks. And even as a tech demo, there is nothing impressive going in. It is stores shit to local storage, I guess. Lol, I just looked this up, and it was in Firefox on 2009 already? WHAT? https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/loca... I never used it myself directly, but I remember reading about some API that kind of is the new version of cookies that can store more and better and I think that is it. 2009, I would swear what I think about was newer, maybe I am mixing something up, maybe not.
It has unnecessarily tracking from the comment above, not sure if it even sends all your notes to https://plausible.io, and I do not care. For me, this fails as a tech demo or whatever the fuck It's supposed to be. Sorry to not get all excited about everything posted here. In 2009 it for sure would ;)
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Using Analytics on My Website
If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1]
If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea.
Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version.
Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while.
1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics
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Open Source alternatives to tools you Pay for
Plausible - Open Source Alternative to Google Analytics
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11 Ways to Optimize Your Website
There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted.
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Ask HN: What is the least obnoxious way to ask for cookie permissions?
You log the IP address, referrer, user agent and the requested page URL but you don't set a unique cookie to identify the user.
This still gets you plenty of actionable analytics information: where geographically people are located (via GeoIP), what pages are most popular, what platforms (including desktop vs mobile) people are using.
I've been using https://plausible.io for analytics on a bunch of my sites for a couple of years now and I honestly don't miss the extra level of detail I got from cookie-based analytics I've used in the past.
- Ask HN: Is Google Analytics that useful?
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A Developer's Guide to Blogging
The analytics provider I've gone with is Plausible. Sadly it's not free - about $9 a month - but it's easy to use, lightweight (the script is less than 1kb), and respects privacy, so it's worth a look IMO.
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Best alternative to GA4 when Google Ads is your most important channel?
Plausible
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It Took Me a Decade to Find the Perfect Personal Website Stack – Ghost+Fathom
Or you need to use some other static site generator to build the HTML table from JSON.
Something very simple, but yet so difficult.
I liked that it was possible to use SQLite3 in production for Ghost. It worked very well and scales as well since it is mostly read operation, but they are officially dropping support for production and using only MySQL. I guess the one argument was, that sending emails for many subscribers was too much for SQLite.
There is also another good analytics service, without cookies and also fully GDPR compliant: https://plausible.io/
What are some alternatives?
AWStats - AWStats Log Analyzer project (official sources)
Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
Elasticsearch - Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Fathom Analytics - Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.
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!
GoatCounter - Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
nginx-proxy-manager-goaccess - NGINX Proxy Manager and Goaccess docker file
PostHog - 🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host.
Open Web Analytics - Official repository for Open Web Analytics which is an open source alternative to commercial tools such as Google Analytics. Stay in control of the data you collect about the use of your website or app. Please consider sponsoring this project.
ctop - Top-like interface for container metrics
pirsch - Pirsch is a drop-in, server-side, no-cookie, and privacy-focused analytics solution for Go.