Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

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  • Plausible Analytics

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

  • I have an indie project called Fugu (https://fugu.lol). Fugu is an open-source and privacy-friendly product analytics. If you're looking strictly for web analytics, it might not be a good fit.

    It's still an early version, but basic things like tracking events with properties, and analzying those, work very well. I'm currently working on adding conversion funnels. It's free to self-host, and I provide a managed version for $9/month flat.

    I've started Fugu because I wanted a product analytics software that is privacy-first (e.g., no possibility of tracking unique users), open-source and simple. I liked using PostHog but it got too fancy, complex and convoluted for my taste - a common theme among analytics software in my experience.

    If you're looking for a pure web analytics solution, I can absolutely recommend Plausible (https://plausible.io). I also use it for my static page at Fugu.

  • Ackee

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

  • 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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  • GoatCounter

    Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

  • https://www.goatcounter.com/ simple effective visitor counting with a fast golang / postgress solution. easy javascript solution to count actions on a page. GDPR compliant! Just looks a bit spartan.

  • 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!

  • The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/. I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.

  • pirsch

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

  • https://pirsch.io/: ClickHouse.

    PD: I should have a blog or something where I put this predicts :)

  • Umami

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

  • Kindmetrics

    Kind metrics analytics for your website

  • 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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  • android-analytics

    Web analytics tool that runs on your Android.

  • Shameless plug: I wrote a log-based analytics software that you can self-host on an Android phone.

    https://github.com/lbrito1/android-analytics

    Blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...

  • nullitics

    Minimalist open-source web analytics

  • 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.

  • GoAccess

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

  • Shynet

    Modern, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS.

  • Shynet: https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

    The goal is to provide, privacy-friendly, and detailed web analytics that works without cookies or JS. And it's completely open source.

    Full disclosure: I am the primary maintainer.

  • ClickHouse

    ClickHouse® is a free analytics DBMS for big data

  • jitsu

    Jitsu is an open-source Segment alternative. Fully-scriptable data ingestion engine for modern data teams. Set-up a real-time data pipeline in minutes, not days

  • Kanboard

    Kanban project management software

  • Huh, the UI seems refreshingly lightweight and boring! Feels very much like the first time i saw Kanboard and was surprised at how minimalistic and snappy it felt in comparison to something like Jira: https://kanboard.org/

    (well, most software probably feels more snappy than Jira, but Kanboard was also amazing)

  • fugu

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

  • I have an indie project called Fugu (https://fugu.lol). Fugu is an open-source and privacy-friendly product analytics. If you're looking strictly for web analytics, it might not be a good fit.

    It's still an early version, but basic things like tracking events with properties, and analzying those, work very well. I'm currently working on adding conversion funnels. It's free to self-host, and I provide a managed version for $9/month flat.

    I've started Fugu because I wanted a product analytics software that is privacy-first (e.g., no possibility of tracking unique users), open-source and simple. I liked using PostHog but it got too fancy, complex and convoluted for my taste - a common theme among analytics software in my experience.

    If you're looking for a pure web analytics solution, I can absolutely recommend Plausible (https://plausible.io). I also use it for my static page at Fugu.

  • posthog-ios

    PostHog iOS SDK

  • 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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