Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?

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  • SurveyJS - Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App
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  • Fathom Analytics

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

  • Fathom is a simple analytics product.

    It can track page views and events, the script is fairly small, is GDPR compliant, and gets out of your way.

    https://usefathom.com

  • Plausible Analytics

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

  • If you're looking for web analytics, I love and can recommend Plausible (https://plausible.io/). It's both simple and privacy-friendly.

    Inspired by Plausible, I recently launched Fugu (https://fugu.lol). Fugu is a simple and privacy-friendly product analytics tool. It offers only event-based tracking, so it's better suited for web or mobile apps and not web sites (go for Plausible for websites). Fugu doesn't track unique users or any personally identifiable information. It's pretty basic for now, but I'm working on adding conversion funnels next (I work on it in my free time).

  • 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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  • pirsch

    Pirsch is a drop-in, server-side, no-cookie, and privacy-focused analytics solution for Go.

  • GoatCounter

    Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

  • fugu

    Fugu is simple, privacy-friendly, open-source and self-hostable product analytics. 🐡 (by shafy)

  • If you're looking for web analytics, I love and can recommend Plausible (https://plausible.io/). It's both simple and privacy-friendly.

    Inspired by Plausible, I recently launched Fugu (https://fugu.lol). Fugu is a simple and privacy-friendly product analytics tool. It offers only event-based tracking, so it's better suited for web or mobile apps and not web sites (go for Plausible for websites). Fugu doesn't track unique users or any personally identifiable information. It's pretty basic for now, but I'm working on adding conversion funnels next (I work on it in my free time).

  • Umami

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

  • https://umami.is/ discovered this, some of my friends use it and it's pretty decent.

  • counter.dev

    Web Analytics made simple

  • I found this 'pay what you want' alternative in my bookmarks: https://counter.dev/

  • 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.

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  • Snowplow

    The enterprise-grade behavioral data engine (web, mobile, server-side, webhooks), running cloud-natively on AWS and GCP

  • https://matomo.org

    That's the only full featured open source competitor I am aware of, so it should be mentioned.

    https://snowplowanalytics.com/

    Somewhat FOSS. There was a story there, but I don't remember the details.

  • 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!

  • https://matomo.org

    That's the only full featured open source competitor I am aware of, so it should be mentioned.

    https://snowplowanalytics.com/

    Somewhat FOSS. There was a story there, but I don't remember the details.

  • zeroindexed

    Monorepo for first party source code that runs under zeroindexed.com.

  • I too wanted to preserve privacy and avoid a cookie banner for my blog. I ended up rolling a privacy preserving proxy via Cloudflare workers that forwards `pageview` events to Google Analytics. It's a single HTML tag to drop in and preserves the navigation and user flow reports on the GA side.

    See https://github.com/rraval/zeroindexed/tree/master/packages/t...

    The blog explains expanded motivation: https://zeroindexed.com/privacy

  • Countly

    Countly is a product analytics platform that helps teams track, analyze and act-on their user actions and behaviour on mobile, web and desktop applications.

  • Always surprised more people don’t use countly. Runs nice in docker or digital ocean. https://count.ly. Been self hosting it for years with few issues.

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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