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Ask HN: Any Alternatives to Google Analytics?

16 points by maydemir 6y ago

Any alternatives to Google Analytics do you know / use?

aglavine 6y ago
amplitude
- maydemir 6y ago
  I'll review it! Edit: I checked and it looks useful, thanks!
  - screpy 6y ago
    Woopra the best believe me. You must try.
screpy 6y ago
Woopra
- maydemir 6y ago
  The website is great. I'll try it! Do you think that is it useful for a SaaS project?
  - screpy 6y ago
    Yes, I using on a SaaS project and works perfect.
tobiaslins 6y ago
Check out splitbee.io :)
- maydemir 6y ago
  Thanks! This is mostly used for UX, right? :) I'll try demo.
scott31 6y ago
Best alternative is respecting the users and not using any analytics services
- maydemir 6y ago
  Yes, but because we respect users, we are trying to improve their usage experience. We can do this by analyzing user actions.
C1sc0cat 6y ago
What scale ? For enterprise Adobe comes to mind but that's super $$$$$$$
ffpip 6y ago
You can find many (too many actually) on these threads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329 Check them out. Many are better and faster. The best ones I found - usertrack.net , gaotcounter, plausible,
NetToolKit 6y ago
We just launched Gatekeeper: https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about Server-side analytics, upsell tool (script interactions on your website), and bot protection all rolled into one. We're happy to answer questions (see profile) and we'd love to get insight into your decision process.
- dylz 6y ago
  How can I self host this, and are you aware Shibboleth is a very old and actively used, well known software? I was quite confused seeing that in the dropdown.
  - NetToolKit 6y ago
    We currently don't offer a self-hosting option, unless it were in the context of an enterprise agreement. If this functionality interests you and you have a large volume of visits, please contact us and we can talk about specifics. We were not aware of Shibboleth single sign-on before we launched, and someone noted the name collision on our Show HN thread. If many people are confused about this, we would certainly consider a different name. The development team wanted a non-generic name (e.g. CAPTCHA), and naming has proved a challenge for us, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know.
rasulkireev 6y ago
https://www.indiehackers.com/post/any-alternatives-to-google-analytics-ee4fa926ef https://www.indiehackers.com/post/any-alternatives-to-google... Thread on Indiehacker, some great answers there. My choice is https://plausible.io https://plausible.io.
malisper 6y ago
I've worked in the space for over four years now and I'm currently building a startup in the space. Google Analytics is the gold standard. It's the tool everyone is familiar with and is often the thing someone does after setting up a new website is install GA. The main startup alternatives are Mixpanel, Amplitude, and Heap. All three are unicorns or are close to being a unicorn. The main issue with GA is it's focused on analyzing pageviews. While you are able to get a lot of information from what pages people are viewing, very little of it is actionable. Mixpanel pioneered the idea of "event-based tracking" where you instrument the actions you care about and run reports over them. This let's you more complex reports like, of after a user sign up, after N months, how many of them are still signing in. Or, how does the conversion rate from users on the free trial differ based on location of the user. The main enterprise alternative is Adobe Analytics, formerly known as Omniture. Pretty much every really large business that uses an analytics product uses Adobe. IIRC, the minimum price you will be quoted for Adobe is around $100k. Besides using an end-to-end analytics solution, the other alternative is to use multiple services together. For this approach people will use a tool for data collection such as Segment or Freshpaint (disclaimer, I'm the founder of Freshpaint) to instrument their website. They will send the data from their data collection tool to a data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift. Then they will use a tool such as Looker or Tableau to visualize the data in their data warehouse.
jpalomaki 6y ago
https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/ Self-hosted (PHP/MySQL) open-core product. Also hosted version available.
XCSme 6y ago
https://www.usertrack.net https://www.usertrack.net userTrack is mostly a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Hotjar (heatmaps/session recordings). It also allows for easy A/B testing. I am the author, ask me anything :)
- dylz 6y ago
  Coupons and Postgres maybe? :)
  - XCSme 6y ago
    I don't do really do coupons as the price is already very low at the moment ($99/life or $7.99/month). I looked a bit into adding Postgres as an option, but it takes some time to recreate the schemas and queries and maintain both DB options. Being on MySQL also makes it a lot easier to install on DigitalOcean, using the LAMP image. Why would you prefer to have Postgres over MySQL? Is it because you are used to Postgres or because of performance considerations?
    - dylz 6y ago
      I already use Postgres and have infrastructure set up to automate Postgres, optimise it, etc. Performance is generally better (at least IME) than MySQL. json, jsonb types, etc were a decision in choosing Postgres for the rest of my application stacks. I think it's fine as long as I can get it running on MariaDB 10+ and PHP 7.5 without issues. I'm interested in a clarification on "Track unlimited websites on one dashboard." - does this software phone home or lock itself down? I usually scale out rather than up, including for personal projects, so "one dashboard" might be running across multiple machines.
      - XCSme 6y ago
        > Track unlimited websites on one dashboard It means that there is one overview page, where you can see last 14 days graphs, 24hours visitors count and number of live visitors for all the websites tracked at once. > does this software phone home or lock itself down I am not sure what this means. Currently there is no domain lock, so you can install multiple dashboards on multiple servers. The only "phone home" that it does was recently added, and it just checks the userTrack server for version updates in order to offer one-click updates of the platform. > usually scale out rather than up I understand. From what I heard from existing users, performance is really good with userTrack, there are users who get 300k+ monthly sessions on cheap server and performance is good. That being said, the current license allows you to install userTrack on multiple servers (that you own). The only drawback, as mentioned in the first point, is that you will lose the ability to easily see all stats in one place or switch between domain stats in the dashboard. What is the scale you are expecting to use userTrack at (1k MAU, 100K MAU, 1M+ MAU) ?
saluki 6y ago
https://usefathom.com/ https://usefathom.com/
stakkur 6y ago
I use Matomo with WordPress, and it's great: https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/
Yusadolat 6y ago
Zoho Pagesense
tomkuk 6y ago
I've been using Nibspace https://nibspace.com/ https://nibspace.com/

16 points by maydemir 6y ago

Any alternatives to Google Analytics do you know / use?

aglavine 6y ago

amplitude

maydemir 6y ago
I'll review it! Edit: I checked and it looks useful, thanks!
- screpy 6y ago
  Woopra the best believe me. You must try.

screpy 6y ago

Woopra

maydemir 6y ago
The website is great. I'll try it! Do you think that is it useful for a SaaS project?
- screpy 6y ago
  Yes, I using on a SaaS project and works perfect.

tobiaslins 6y ago

Check out splitbee.io :)

maydemir 6y ago
Thanks! This is mostly used for UX, right? :) I'll try demo.

scott31 6y ago

Best alternative is respecting the users and not using any analytics services

maydemir 6y ago
Yes, but because we respect users, we are trying to improve their usage experience. We can do this by analyzing user actions.

C1sc0cat 6y ago

What scale ? For enterprise Adobe comes to mind but that's super $$$$$$$

ffpip 6y ago

You can find many (too many actually) on these threads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198980 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24198329 Check them out. Many are better and faster. The best ones I found - usertrack.net , gaotcounter, plausible,

NetToolKit 6y ago

We just launched Gatekeeper: https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about https://www.nettoolkit.com/gatekeeper/about Server-side analytics, upsell tool (script interactions on your website), and bot protection all rolled into one. We're happy to answer questions (see profile) and we'd love to get insight into your decision process.

dylz 6y ago
How can I self host this, and are you aware Shibboleth is a very old and actively used, well known software? I was quite confused seeing that in the dropdown.
- NetToolKit 6y ago
  We currently don't offer a self-hosting option, unless it were in the context of an enterprise agreement. If this functionality interests you and you have a large volume of visits, please contact us and we can talk about specifics. We were not aware of Shibboleth single sign-on before we launched, and someone noted the name collision on our Show HN thread. If many people are confused about this, we would certainly consider a different name. The development team wanted a non-generic name (e.g. CAPTCHA), and naming has proved a challenge for us, so if you have any suggestions, please let us know.

rasulkireev 6y ago

https://www.indiehackers.com/post/any-alternatives-to-google-analytics-ee4fa926ef https://www.indiehackers.com/post/any-alternatives-to-google... Thread on Indiehacker, some great answers there. My choice is https://plausible.io https://plausible.io.

malisper 6y ago

I've worked in the space for over four years now and I'm currently building a startup in the space. Google Analytics is the gold standard. It's the tool everyone is familiar with and is often the thing someone does after setting up a new website is install GA. The main startup alternatives are Mixpanel, Amplitude, and Heap. All three are unicorns or are close to being a unicorn. The main issue with GA is it's focused on analyzing pageviews. While you are able to get a lot of information from what pages people are viewing, very little of it is actionable. Mixpanel pioneered the idea of "event-based tracking" where you instrument the actions you care about and run reports over them. This let's you more complex reports like, of after a user sign up, after N months, how many of them are still signing in. Or, how does the conversion rate from users on the free trial differ based on location of the user. The main enterprise alternative is Adobe Analytics, formerly known as Omniture. Pretty much every really large business that uses an analytics product uses Adobe. IIRC, the minimum price you will be quoted for Adobe is around $100k. Besides using an end-to-end analytics solution, the other alternative is to use multiple services together. For this approach people will use a tool for data collection such as Segment or Freshpaint (disclaimer, I'm the founder of Freshpaint) to instrument their website. They will send the data from their data collection tool to a data warehouse such as Snowflake, BigQuery, or Redshift. Then they will use a tool such as Looker or Tableau to visualize the data in their data warehouse.

jpalomaki 6y ago

https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/ Self-hosted (PHP/MySQL) open-core product. Also hosted version available.

XCSme 6y ago

https://www.usertrack.net https://www.usertrack.net userTrack is mostly a self-hosted alternative to Google Analytics and Hotjar (heatmaps/session recordings). It also allows for easy A/B testing. I am the author, ask me anything :)

dylz 6y ago
Coupons and Postgres maybe? :)
- XCSme 6y ago
  I don't do really do coupons as the price is already very low at the moment ($99/life or $7.99/month). I looked a bit into adding Postgres as an option, but it takes some time to recreate the schemas and queries and maintain both DB options. Being on MySQL also makes it a lot easier to install on DigitalOcean, using the LAMP image. Why would you prefer to have Postgres over MySQL? Is it because you are used to Postgres or because of performance considerations?
  - dylz 6y ago
    I already use Postgres and have infrastructure set up to automate Postgres, optimise it, etc. Performance is generally better (at least IME) than MySQL. json, jsonb types, etc were a decision in choosing Postgres for the rest of my application stacks. I think it's fine as long as I can get it running on MariaDB 10+ and PHP 7.5 without issues. I'm interested in a clarification on "Track unlimited websites on one dashboard." - does this software phone home or lock itself down? I usually scale out rather than up, including for personal projects, so "one dashboard" might be running across multiple machines.
    - XCSme 6y ago
      > Track unlimited websites on one dashboard It means that there is one overview page, where you can see last 14 days graphs, 24hours visitors count and number of live visitors for all the websites tracked at once. > does this software phone home or lock itself down I am not sure what this means. Currently there is no domain lock, so you can install multiple dashboards on multiple servers. The only "phone home" that it does was recently added, and it just checks the userTrack server for version updates in order to offer one-click updates of the platform. > usually scale out rather than up I understand. From what I heard from existing users, performance is really good with userTrack, there are users who get 300k+ monthly sessions on cheap server and performance is good. That being said, the current license allows you to install userTrack on multiple servers (that you own). The only drawback, as mentioned in the first point, is that you will lose the ability to easily see all stats in one place or switch between domain stats in the dashboard. What is the scale you are expecting to use userTrack at (1k MAU, 100K MAU, 1M+ MAU) ?

saluki 6y ago

https://usefathom.com/ https://usefathom.com/

stakkur 6y ago

I use Matomo with WordPress, and it's great: https://matomo.org/ https://matomo.org/

Yusadolat 6y ago

Zoho Pagesense

tomkuk 6y ago

I've been using Nibspace https://nibspace.com/ https://nibspace.com/