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It would be handy if people listed here all the alternatives that don't steal your customer info.

lgrebe 7y ago
https://simpleanalytics.com/ https://simpleanalytics.com/
rapnie 7y ago
https://usefathom.com/ https://usefathom.com/ https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/ https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy http://matomo.org/ http://matomo.org/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://count.ly/ https://count.ly/
- gramakri 7y ago
  I gave many of these a visit. fathom - Looks great. I am OK with closed source products (my motivation is self-hosting/privacy) but the direction is not clear to me. Maybe they will have a blog about it at some point - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268 https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268. Having multiple code bases is going to be super hard. goaccess.io - this analyses web logs google-analytics-proxy - project is dead matomo - this is what i use now and it works great. has a lot of quirks but if you spend some time, you can make it work. ackee, goatcounter - simple but looks like this does not track users/sessions. it's mostly for page hits. countly - looks good if you are enterprise. there is no pricing :( freshlytics (from another thread) - page says it's in beta and not production ready
  - Carpetsmoker 7y ago
    GoatCounter author here: doing some form of session tracking is on the roadmap; check back in a few months. The project is still quite new, with the first "real" release only being last week :-) As for Fathom, I find that last "since that people are confused"-comment rather funny, since their messaging on this has been confused for almost a year, haha
    - gramakri 7y ago
      Will do! I am already following your project :)
- sdan 7y ago
  Building https://sdan.io/pingpong https://sdan.io/pingpong. We're dedicated to building the fastest client-side load analytics engine available. If you want to stay in the loop on how development is going please do so! https://forms.gle/MhojBWWfdiWjZatC7 https://forms.gle/MhojBWWfdiWjZatC7
- whycombagator 7y ago
  - Simpleanalytics[0] (also commented elsewhere in this thread) - Goatcounter also came up a few days ago on HN and got a lot of traction/discussion[1] I can't find the comment it was posted in, but a HN user did a good comparison of a few privacy-focused analytics tools[2] [0] https://simpleanalytics.com/ https://simpleanalytics.com/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 [2] https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focused-analytics-platforms-209m https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focu... Edit: I found the OG comment for the blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544
- dvko 7y ago
  If you're using WordPress, there is https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/. Open-source, self hosted, no external services & very performant.
- drusepth 7y ago
  I think including prices in this list would significantly improve it.
protonfish 7y ago
Or just use server log analytics. Client-side analytics are a significant contributor to the proliferation of JavaScript bloat and unnecessary 3rd party cookies.
- guelo 7y ago
  I've been surprised lately by how much more pleasant, readable and usable the news/blog-web is with JavaScript turned off. JavaScript is basically just used for the user-hostile ad-tech.
  - Mirioron 7y ago
    I've been wondering about this recently: perhaps we'd actually be better off with simpler browsers that did less so that the websites would do less?
    - anderspitman 7y ago
      I've been thinking the same thing, and started[0] experimenting[1] with some ideas. I think it be fun to make a web browser that implements a few HTML tags, flexbox and a few other CSS primitives (no animations), and no JS. Sites that are compatible with it would still work on current browsers. [0] https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable [1] https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable
    - dvko 7y ago
      It's why I'm somewhat against WASM, even though it's very cool from a technical standpoint. It makes the web even more of an operating system, where I'd like it to be less.
  - cholmon 7y ago
    I recently found https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/ (linked down in the footer of the main NPR site) and it made me very happy.
pcmaffey 7y ago
Or roll your own: https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics
40four 7y ago
https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics
soumyadeb 7y ago
Disclaimer: I am the founder of RudderStack (https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server) With our open-source data collection framework like RudderStack (an alternative to Segment), dumping data into a warehouse (Redshift/BigQuery/Druid etc) and sticking another open-source visualization layer on top (e.g. like SuperSet), it is possible to put together an alternative to Google Analytics. One of our early users did it and we wrote a blog about it https://rudderstack.com/blog/open-source-analytics/ https://rudderstack.com/blog/open-source-analytics/

https://simpleanalytics.com/ https://simpleanalytics.com/

https://usefathom.com/ https://usefathom.com/ https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/ https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy http://matomo.org/ http://matomo.org/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://ackee.electerious.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://count.ly/ https://count.ly/

gramakri 7y ago
I gave many of these a visit. fathom - Looks great. I am OK with closed source products (my motivation is self-hosting/privacy) but the direction is not clear to me. Maybe they will have a blog about it at some point - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268 https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268. Having multiple code bases is going to be super hard. goaccess.io - this analyses web logs google-analytics-proxy - project is dead matomo - this is what i use now and it works great. has a lot of quirks but if you spend some time, you can make it work. ackee, goatcounter - simple but looks like this does not track users/sessions. it's mostly for page hits. countly - looks good if you are enterprise. there is no pricing :( freshlytics (from another thread) - page says it's in beta and not production ready
- Carpetsmoker 7y ago
  GoatCounter author here: doing some form of session tracking is on the roadmap; check back in a few months. The project is still quite new, with the first "real" release only being last week :-) As for Fathom, I find that last "since that people are confused"-comment rather funny, since their messaging on this has been confused for almost a year, haha
  - gramakri 7y ago
    Will do! I am already following your project :)
sdan 7y ago
Building https://sdan.io/pingpong https://sdan.io/pingpong. We're dedicated to building the fastest client-side load analytics engine available. If you want to stay in the loop on how development is going please do so! https://forms.gle/MhojBWWfdiWjZatC7 https://forms.gle/MhojBWWfdiWjZatC7
whycombagator 7y ago
- Simpleanalytics[0] (also commented elsewhere in this thread) - Goatcounter also came up a few days ago on HN and got a lot of traction/discussion[1] I can't find the comment it was posted in, but a HN user did a good comparison of a few privacy-focused analytics tools[2] [0] https://simpleanalytics.com/ https://simpleanalytics.com/ [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 [2] https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focused-analytics-platforms-209m https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focu... Edit: I found the OG comment for the blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544
dvko 7y ago
If you're using WordPress, there is https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/ https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/. Open-source, self hosted, no external services & very performant.
drusepth 7y ago
I think including prices in this list would significantly improve it.

protonfish 7y ago

Or just use server log analytics. Client-side analytics are a significant contributor to the proliferation of JavaScript bloat and unnecessary 3rd party cookies.

guelo 7y ago
I've been surprised lately by how much more pleasant, readable and usable the news/blog-web is with JavaScript turned off. JavaScript is basically just used for the user-hostile ad-tech.
- Mirioron 7y ago
  I've been wondering about this recently: perhaps we'd actually be better off with simpler browsers that did less so that the websites would do less?
  - anderspitman 7y ago
    I've been thinking the same thing, and started[0] experimenting[1] with some ideas. I think it be fun to make a web browser that implements a few HTML tags, flexbox and a few other CSS primitives (no animations), and no JS. Sites that are compatible with it would still work on current browsers. [0] https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable https://anderspitman.net/19/#netcatable [1] https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable https://anderspitman.net/17/#curlable
  - dvko 7y ago
    It's why I'm somewhat against WASM, even though it's very cool from a technical standpoint. It makes the web even more of an operating system, where I'd like it to be less.
- cholmon 7y ago
  I recently found https://text.npr.org/ https://text.npr.org/ (linked down in the footer of the main NPR site) and it made me very happy.

pcmaffey 7y ago

Or roll your own: https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics https://www.pcmaffey.com/roll-your-own-analytics

40four 7y ago

https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

soumyadeb 7y ago

Disclaimer: I am the founder of RudderStack (https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server https://github.com/rudderlabs/rudder-server) With our open-source data collection framework like RudderStack (an alternative to Segment), dumping data into a warehouse (Redshift/BigQuery/Druid etc) and sticking another open-source visualization layer on top (e.g. like SuperSet), it is possible to put together an alternative to Google Analytics. One of our early users did it and we wrote a blog about it https://rudderstack.com/blog/open-source-analytics/ https://rudderstack.com/blog/open-source-analytics/