timeonsite_analytics VS Umami

But, this is all custom querying to find our desired reports. Also, this is part of Timeonsite Analytics, an advanced querying technique to find insights and stats. We'll skip that for now. And let's take a look at the free tool "Visual" provided by timonsite.js for quick reporting and analytics view of the user engagement data.

Following are the list of items we intend to do with this library, it proves all these by default: * track browser tab presence only (when user is off tab, disable tracking automatically) * clear separation of anonymous/authenticated users * high levels of transparency & accuracy of tracked data * blacklisting pages that we don't want to track in our website * Provides DD-HH-MM-SS format of tracked time-on-site in API itself (no need to convert seconds to user-friendly format) * subdomain based tracking (to have separate user sessions & its time on site tracking for sub-domains for clear separation) - I don't think this feature is present in all analytics provider including GA/Matomo * disable tracking when minimizing browser window to enhance time-on-site accuracy * track specific activity like learning, watching video, designing content, app designing with GUI tools with Tos.startActivity() & Tos.enActivity() APIs (this uses same level of accuracy lust like for time on site accuracy) * provides both near real-time capture with JS callback option(send tracked data immediately to DB without saving in any browser storage) or request object (store in local storage and send it on next page load) * Perform massive analytics with timeonsite_analytics free, in-built library on tracked data * provides both PHP/NodeJS free backend server code https://github.com/saleemkce/visual to store data and visualize through dashboard & reporting tools. * Very light-weight library to keep the page load much less minimal

Another open source alternative similar to Plausible is https://umami.is/

Are you tired of relying solely on Google Analytics to track your website's performance? Look no further! Introducing Umami , a powerful and privacy-focused alternative that puts you in control of your analytics data. Umami was founded by three brothers, Mike, Brian and Francis Cao as they were frustarted with using Google Analytics, which dominated and still does the industry of analytics despite of privacy concerns. As it is open-source, Umami quickly started being popular open-source project while still respecting privacy of users. My personal opinion, is that Umami is really easy to setup and use, for smaller projects as my personal website it is of great use. It does not many tracking as GA but it really does its job.

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For a while now, I've been creating mini web tools to test out ideas or as tiny helpers for myself. I usually publish them on individual subdomains, which might not be the best idea, but I like the concept of a short, easy-to-remember URL. Recently, I discovered that some of these tools actually have a few users, which made me consider adding analytics to them. After a bit of research, I settled on umami. It's a great little privacy-conscious tool with exactly what I need and nothing more.

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

2. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

3. https://umami.is

4. https://www.pikapods.com

not enough, can confirm, I moved to Umami for ChadNext

Think of metrics that will gather good insights for creating more things for the product later and track them using analytics services like umami or others.

Analytics is something that can easily become a privacy headache. To get around the issues as much as possible, the strategy I've implemented is to self-host the analytics tool Umami (again, via the One click app functionality in CapRover!).

This question is targeted to those who have experience with Umami. I’m wondering if it make sense with a specific configuration.