How I switched from Google Analytics to a Better Open Source alternative

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  • uBlock

    uBlock Origin - An efficient blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.

    Avoiding Ad-blockers Let's face it, a lot of people use ad-blockers nowadays, which means the data fetched by Google Analytics affected. Their analytics script is blocked by many people who use adblockers such as the uBlock Origin and from users of privacy browsers such as Brave.

  • Plausible Analytics

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

    So, how did I solve this? I saw a tweet from Uku Taht where he talked about his new open-source and transparent analytics tool called Plausible, I checked out their website, read the docs and I was amazed with the product. It solves every thing I mentioned in the above points! It's lightweight, open-sourced, no cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. The part that won me over was this note taken from their official docs:

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  • 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.

    I was looking at Open Web Analytics the other day - seems it can be easily hosted on any hosting plan.

  • Mautic

    Mautic: Open Source Marketing Automation Software.

  • degoogle

    A huge list of alternatives to Google products. Privacy tips, tricks, and links.

    I maintain Degoogle which has a section for Analytics alternatives

  • 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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