Plausible Analytics Alternatives

Plausible Analytics reviews and mentions

• Going open-source as a VC-Backed company
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 10 Sep 2024

  I'm not sure I personally agree with this, and I'm not 100% sure the developer community at-large does either...

  Let's take a few examples, which I've shared elsewhere in similar discussions:

  - GitLab: Open Source or Open Core? Most would say Open Source, but (I assume) you would argue Open Core [0].

  - Plausible: Open Source or Open Core? They say Open Source, but it's actually Open Core [1].

  - Cal.com: Open Source or Open Core? They say Open Source, but once again, Open Core [2].

  - Posthog: Open Source or Open Core? They say Open Source, still Open Core [3].

  - Sidekiq: Open Source or Open Core? Once again: Open Core [4].

  Yet, every dev I know would consider these projects Open Source. So there's a disconnect somewhere.

  Under this mindset, very few open source startups are actually open source, yet everybody says they are?

  I'm not trying to argue either way; I'm trying to point out a disconnect here.

  [0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/ee/LICENS...

  [1]: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/2dd2f058d1dcae6f...

  [2]: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com/blob/main/packages/feature...

  [3]: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/blob/master/ee/LICENSE

  [4]: https://github.com/sidekiq/sidekiq/blob/main/COMM-LICENSE.tx...

• Plausible's "No need for cookie banners" might be incorrect
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2024
• There's an AI – No Junk, Just Gems
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 17 Aug 2024
• Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance with O Cookie Consent Banner
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jul 2024
• Show HN: I've made Keyword Research tool that's 90% cheaper than anything
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Jul 2024

  This is funny to me because it also looks just like Plausible Analytics' design. (They also used Tailwind). I guess both took heavy inspiration from the tailwind example design

  https://plausible.io

• Counterscale and the New Self-Hosted
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 24 Jun 2024

  Shout out to Plausible for open-source, dead-simple, Saas-or-self-hosted analytics.

  https://plausible.io

• Time Series Analysis of Plausible Data
  1 project | dev.to | 21 May 2024

  # Function to get Plausible Analytics timeseries data def get_plausible_timeseries_data(): # Calculate the date range for the last 90 days date_to = datetime.today().strftime('%Y-%m-%d') date_from = (datetime.today() - timedelta(days=90)).strftime('%Y-%m-%d') # Setting the metrics we want to look at metrics='visitors,pageviews' # Actually pulling the data we want url = f"https://plausible.io/api/v1/stats/timeseries?site_id={site_id}&period=custom&date={date_from},{date_to}&metrics={metrics}" headers = { "Authorization": f"Bearer {api_key}" } response = requests.get(url, headers=headers) data = response.json() # Putting the data into a dataframe we can use for analysis results = data['results'] df = pd.DataFrame(results) # Adjusting the date field so we can avoid future warnings and be more accurate df['date'] = pd.to_datetime(df['date']) return df

• Ask HN: Founders who offer free/OS and paid SaaS, how do you manage your code?
  17 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 May 2024

  I’m building an Open Source multi-tenant email newsletter tool [1] and the project is entirely AGPLv3 licensed. I have automatic builds from the `main` branch that I deploy to the SaaS version while public Docker images are available only for tagged releases.

  There is currently no difference between the self-hosted and the SaaS version, but I am planning two things:

  1) An env variable `IS_SELF_HOSTED` which, when set to `false`, toggles certain features like billing (currently enabled via a separate env variable and theoretically available to self-hosters) and includes hard-coded stuff like a footer with links to the official project website and our ToS.

  2) Add a registration feature for self-hosters who make a donation. I haven’t fully planned out this feature, but if a self-hosted instance is registered by a paid supporter, it will most likely remove a call for becoming a supporter (that is yet to be added) or give them a supporter badge.

  Choosing the AGPLv3 has been partially inspired by Plausible’s very successful model [2]. They’re also using a `SELFHOST` env variable to differentiate between their "Enterprise Edition" and the "Community Edition" [3].

  [1] https://www.keila.io

  [2] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses

  [3] https://github.com/plausible/analytics/blob/baa99652f612f50b...

• Any Google Analytics Alternatives?
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 1 May 2024

  I think a single Google Analytics alternative is pretty hard to pick considering that GA can be used to very much varying extents.

  For simple and "detailed enough" insights, I enjoyed using Plausible (https://plausible.io/) in the past.

  For more in depth analytics that give you a detailed view into your own product, PostHog.com seems to be by far the best and most popular option out there.

• We need to Speak about Google Code Quality
  2 projects | dev.to | 24 Apr 2024

  I could do the same exercise with Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, but luckily I don't need to, since Plausible already did. A piece of advice, rip out Google Analytics and use Plausible instead. It first of all doesn't destroy your website, and secondly it doesn't violate the GDPR - So you can embed it on your site without having to warn your visitors about that they're being spied on by Google.

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