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For people looking for similar options, there's also Matomo[1] (previously Piwik) that you can self-host for free. [1] https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/

by yoran 8y ago

thinkmassive 8y ago
I came to the comments to see how this compares with Piwik. Didn’t realize it was also renamed, so thanks!
smacktoward 8y ago
+1 for Matomo. I use it, it's great.
bovermyer 8y ago
Matomo is really good. I use this.
johnwheeler 8y ago
I wouldn't really call Matomo a 'similar option'. I think the reason Fathom is getting upvotes is because it is dead simple. You immediately understand what's going on when you log into the demo. Matomo looks like a GA clone that'd take some getting acclimated to.
ryanwhitney 8y ago
Careful with the innocraft hosted options. I checked it out the other week (looking for a GA alternative) and they were sending out passwords in plain text. Really looking forward to trying Fathom.
clairity 8y ago
unfortunately, matomo is harder than necessary to automatically deploy to containerized environments like heroku because they don't support the 12 factor principles [1]. a cynic might assume that this is because it would undermine their own hosted solution. [1] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223 https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223 (i would use matomo if they fixed this issue)
- vorpalhex 8y ago
  Or they just chose a very common pattern of keeping configs in files instead and haven't gotten around to support environment variables. Probably not a conspiracy... given that you could fork it, implement this feature, and then PR it back to the main repo...
  - clairity 8y ago
    i looked into it about a year ago, and it would have required a rewrite of the (brittle) installer as well as supporting modules (that seemed to be dependencies of other parts of the system), not just extracting the configs into environment variables (which i did, but that didn't solve the problem). non-trivial, to say the least.
- icco 8y ago
  We use Matomo in containers, you can write configs with the incoming hostname and it works pretty well.
fiatjaf 8y ago
Also my https://trackingco.de/ https://trackingco.de/, hosted for a very low price but also open-source. Matomo is very complex. Trackingcode is simple, comparable to Fathom.
zenincognito 8y ago
Google - google analytics vs piwik , hit the first result and you will realize matomo is nothing like analytics
gorkemcetin 8y ago
Another alternative is Countly [1], if you are looking at an open source product analytics platform [1] https://github.com/countly/countly-server https://github.com/countly/countly-server

For people looking for similar options, there's also Matomo[1] (previously Piwik) that you can self-host for free. [1] https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/

by yoran 8y ago

For people looking for similar options, there's also Matomo[1] (previously Piwik) that you can self-host for free. [1] https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/

thinkmassive 8y ago

I came to the comments to see how this compares with Piwik. Didn’t realize it was also renamed, so thanks!

smacktoward 8y ago

+1 for Matomo. I use it, it's great.

bovermyer 8y ago

Matomo is really good. I use this.

johnwheeler 8y ago

I wouldn't really call Matomo a 'similar option'. I think the reason Fathom is getting upvotes is because it is dead simple. You immediately understand what's going on when you log into the demo. Matomo looks like a GA clone that'd take some getting acclimated to.

ryanwhitney 8y ago

Careful with the innocraft hosted options. I checked it out the other week (looking for a GA alternative) and they were sending out passwords in plain text. Really looking forward to trying Fathom.

clairity 8y ago

unfortunately, matomo is harder than necessary to automatically deploy to containerized environments like heroku because they don't support the 12 factor principles [1]. a cynic might assume that this is because it would undermine their own hosted solution. [1] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223 https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223 (i would use matomo if they fixed this issue)

vorpalhex 8y ago
Or they just chose a very common pattern of keeping configs in files instead and haven't gotten around to support environment variables. Probably not a conspiracy... given that you could fork it, implement this feature, and then PR it back to the main repo...
- clairity 8y ago
  i looked into it about a year ago, and it would have required a rewrite of the (brittle) installer as well as supporting modules (that seemed to be dependencies of other parts of the system), not just extracting the configs into environment variables (which i did, but that didn't solve the problem). non-trivial, to say the least.
icco 8y ago
We use Matomo in containers, you can write configs with the incoming hostname and it works pretty well.

fiatjaf 8y ago

Also my https://trackingco.de/ https://trackingco.de/, hosted for a very low price but also open-source. Matomo is very complex. Trackingcode is simple, comparable to Fathom.

zenincognito 8y ago

Google - google analytics vs piwik , hit the first result and you will realize matomo is nothing like analytics

gorkemcetin 8y ago

Another alternative is Countly [1], if you are looking at an open source product analytics platform [1] https://github.com/countly/countly-server https://github.com/countly/countly-server