Looking for a free Google Analytics alternative for my side projects

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  • Plausible Analytics

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

  • It's not for free, but it's rather cheap at 72€pA for as many sites as you like: https://plausible.io/

  • 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!

  • At a previous client gig at a startup, we used Matomo (https://matomo.org/) for basic analytics and it did the job.

  • InfluxDB

    Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

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  • Umami

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

  • When I was reasearching GDPR friendly analytics solutions I stumbled upon multiple options that look somewhat similar. One that looks similar to both Fathom and Plausible is Umami and they offer a free tier.

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