Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics

• Plausible Analytics

  100 14,259 9.1 Elixir

  Simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.

  

  here are some for you to consider:

  https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

  https://github.com/plausible/analytics

  https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

  All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3 have options for you.

  I am currently self hosting Matomo and am happy with it.

  Fun timing for you to ask as just running a poll to see what others are using:

  https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109689221718875173

• GoAccess

  34 15,941 9.5 C

  GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

  If you'd be content with the data already in your Nginx logs then there's GoAccess which is a command line tool that can parse web server logs and give you a breakdown of page hits/unique visitors over time, as well as data from user agents.

  https://goaccess.io/

• Appwrite

  appwrite.io

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• Matomo

  47 17,467 9.4 PHP

  Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. Matomo is the leading open 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. We love Pull Requests!

  

  here are some for you to consider:

  https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

  https://github.com/plausible/analytics

  https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

  All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3 have options for you.

  I am currently self hosting Matomo and am happy with it.

  Fun timing for you to ask as just running a poll to see what others are using:

  https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109689221718875173

• GoatCounter

  17 3,279 7.2 Go

  Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

  

  here are some for you to consider:

  https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo

  https://github.com/plausible/analytics

  https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

  All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3 have options for you.

  I am currently self hosting Matomo and am happy with it.

  Fun timing for you to ask as just running a poll to see what others are using:

  https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109689221718875173

• Umami

  48 14,955 9.7 JavaScript

  Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.

  

  I think your title and your description may already show a little problem: You say you're lookin for a GA alternative, but what if GA was never the right tool for your use case, to begin with? Your use case description is pretty minimal:

  > "I would like to see visitor numbers at times of day and probably a few more things in the future."

  GA is a very complex tool, that often is complete overkill for small sites. So when you ask for GA alternatives, you will probably hear Matomo as a suggestion – but this also is in the same area of complexity as GA and would probably not be a good fit for your project (and it wouldn't solve your cookie problem without proper configuration).

  So maybe a better question would be "What analytics tool should I use for project XYZ?"

  If you want a minimal approach, take a look at Umami (https://umami.is/), which is about as minimal as it gets (when talking about frontend JS analytics tools).

• featurebase-examples

  3 5 10.0 HTML

  Examples for FeatureBase Community

  

  One piece to consider is where to store data and how it may be leveraged for counts of things, over time. For basic analytics, a simple dashboard may be created independently of the data store.

  FeatureBase is a super fast, highly efficient, in-memory analytical data store which may be queried using SQL. We have customers handling 10s of billions of events with it. It's free, Open Source and available here: https://featurebase.com/.

  There are reference Docker containers which may be used for a deployment or reference for building a deployment: https://github.com/FeaturebaseDb/featurebase-examples

• web-analytics-starter-kit

  2 140 10.0 TypeScript

  Tinybird Web Analytics Starter Kit

  

  If you're looking for one that gives you more control, there is a starter kit from Tinybird to build your own GA replacement over a managed ClickHouse. You can customise it as much as you want, capture different data, do different analytics, custom frontend, etc. https://github.com/tinybirdco/web-analytics-starter-kit

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com

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  Access the most powerful time series database as a service. Ingest, store, & analyze all types of time series data in a fully-managed, purpose-built database. Keep data forever with low-cost storage and superior data compression.

  

• PostHog

  30 11,298 10.0 TypeScript

  🦔 PostHog provides open-source product analytics, session recording, feature flagging and a/b testing that you can self-host.

  

  https://posthog.com/ is quite good (just a happy user)

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