What is a good, lightweight, free alternative to Google Analytics?

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  • Fathom Analytics

    Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

  • Umami

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

  • https://umami.is/ - Requires self hosting, but is one of the most simple and lightweight you'll find.

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • Plausible Analytics

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

  • https://plausible.io/ (self-host available)

  • 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!

  • Matomo (formally Piwik). You'll have to self-host this one, but the level of data you get from it is probably going to be the most detailed in comparison to Google Analytics and other alternatives.

  • Ackee

    Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.

  • I've used Ackee (https://ackee.electerious.com/) for some time now and I love it!

  • 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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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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