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! (by matomo-org)
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. (by Open-Web-Analytics)
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| Matomo | Open Web Analytics | |
|---|---|---|
| 148 | 13 | |
| 18,967 | 2,352 | |
| 0.8% | 1.7% | |
| 9.8 | 3.7 | |
| 7 days ago | 18 days ago | |
| PHP | PHP | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Matomo
Posts with mentions or reviews of Matomo.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-03-25.
- Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
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🔥Matomo 5 UPGRADE - A step-by-step GUIDE 🤌
Matomo just released their major v5 upgrade with following key improvements:
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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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Mobile apps illegally share your personal data
You can for example use analytics that aren't spyware, and hence don't even have to try to trick users giving "consent" to things they don't really want.
Seriously: what share of people actually want their behavior to be tracked for ad companies to make more money?
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Ask HN: Is Google Analytics that useful?
Matomo is a GDPR-compliant and open-source analytics platform. You can either host it yourself or use Matomo’s hosted version. https://matomo.org/
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Companies must stop using Google Analytics
I tried the self-hosted version of Matomo [1][2] a few years back but I remember it was a bit underwhelming for the effort required to set it up.
- GA4 is terrible
- Site analytics for open source project?
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LF a Service to Monitor Web Visits
It seems like you just want a self hsoted google analytics. Theres Plausible , Matomo and Umami for that.
- A better alternative to google "+reddit" searches?
Open Web Analytics
Posts with mentions or reviews of Open Web Analytics.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-04.
- Analytics software
- Most reliable Google Analytics alternative?
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Handling IP addresses
Analytics services can also be self-hosted. While this is a more expensive solution from a management perspective, it is the solution that affords the greatest flexibility for implementing and enforcing privacy protections. There are many offerings in this space, including established projects like Matomo (formerly Piwik) and Open Web Analytics.
- French data protection update: Goolge Analytics is (still) illegal
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Quick Question: Backend engineering intern
It depends on what metrics exactly the analytics want to aim. Maybe it's indeed better to dev something just for this use case. But as he said, “track it ourselves” I'll avoid Google solution and use something like Open Web Analytics (In general case, I don't use Google Analytics any more).
- Austrian Data Protection Authority declares Google Analytics as not compliant with GDPR. Decision relevant for almost all EU websites.
- Telemetry for a self-hosted open-source platform
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8 Google Analytics Alternatives (Enterprise and Open Source)
What it is: Open Web Analytics is an open-source web analytics platform that lets you analyze and track your site and app visitors. It offers flexibility to monitor your analytics with a simple and easy-to-use dashboard.
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How I switched from Google Analytics to a Better Open Source alternative
I was looking at Open Web Analytics the other day - seems it can be easily hosted on any hosting plan.
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[AskJS] How does something like Google Analytics collect accurate data and how could one build their own analytics?
I thought the old self-hosted version was available on github. See how http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ does it.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Matomo and Open Web Analytics you can also consider the following projects:
AWStats - AWStats Log Analyzer project (official sources)
PostHog - 🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and A/B testing that you can self-host.
GoAccess - GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
Umami - Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
Fathom Analytics - Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.
php-web-analytics - Server-sided PHP web analytics.
Plausible Analytics - Simple, open source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
Shynet - Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.
Matomo vs AWStats
Open Web Analytics vs AWStats
Matomo vs PostHog
Open Web Analytics vs GoAccess
Matomo vs GoAccess
Open Web Analytics vs Umami
Matomo vs Fathom Analytics
Open Web Analytics vs php-web-analytics
Matomo vs Umami
Open Web Analytics vs Plausible Analytics
Matomo vs Plausible Analytics
Open Web Analytics vs Shynet