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> 1) don't use Google. There must be services that will provide analytics pro-bono/really cheaply for open source/non-profits that aren't tied to a company with
by forgotpwtomain 10y ago
> 1) don't use Google. There must be services that will provide analytics pro-bono/really cheaply for open source/non-profits that aren't tied to a company with terrible privacy track records like Google.
As an occasional Django user -- 100% on this. It's nothing difficult to store and persist some key-value pairs from a POST request, certainly doesn't require Google Analytics.
- delroth 10y agoStoring and persisting is the easy part. Generating useful aggregations, doing decimation on the data to avoid having an unbounded set of data while keeping some historical values, and all this kind of work is why people use GA and other analytics software. And all this is far from trivial.
- forgotpwtomain 10y agoDepends what your visualization requirements are, probably most of what Django project is looking for can be done in a few hours with matplotlib.
- scrollaway 10y agoInfluxDB. Super simple to send an ad hoc metric to it. Grafana let's you build wonderful graphs on top of it.
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- tribby 10y agoPiwik[0] is one open-source solution for self-hosting. 0. https://piwik.org/ https://piwik.org/