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I have been using (and self-hosting) Umami for 3 websites for the better of a year. While good for my use-case, which is just having some 'fun' insights of how

by xz18r 2y ago

I have been using (and self-hosting) Umami for 3 websites for the better of a year. While good for my use-case, which is just having some 'fun' insights of how many visits my pages get and where that traffic is coming from, it's mostly aimed at my profile I reckon. Would never use it for a business purpose. Also the UI is somewhat immature still. So all in all: total fan, otherwise I wouldn't be using it, but it's fairly limited in what it can do.

baxtr 2y ago
Have you tried the similar tools as well like matomo?
- xz18r 2y ago
  I have checked them out and decided not to go with it since it was overkill for my situation. Like I said, I don't need a whole lot more than visits, geo, referrer, and track events[1] which work really nicely. If I ever do need a GA4 alternative for 'serious' purposes though, I might consider Matomo as it seems a lot more complete. [1] https://umami.is/docs/track-events https://umami.is/docs/track-events
pastorhudson 2y ago
I really like the simplicity of the ui. I’m curious what makes it immature vs mature in your opinion?
- xz18r 2y ago
  There are options missing from the admin panel or the dashboards that intuitively seem basic. Some examples: - excluding certain data from your report (such as localhost visits) - setting a default time range - on the 'overview' of all your domains, setting a time range that applies to all and not just one domain individually (this particularly felt really counterintuitive) There is more I'd come up with if I actually pulled it up, but the overall throughline is that it just feels 'too basic' at this moment. Especially for something that goes beyond tracking visits on your personal blog and/or hobby website.
  - pastorhudson 2y ago
    Thank you excluding localhost is a feature I didn’t know I needed till your comment. Makes total sense.
  - cobertos 2y ago
    You can exclude your own visits (like localhost visits) by manually setting a localStorage entry on the browser you don't want to report statistics. https://umami.is/docs/exclude-my-own-visits https://umami.is/docs/exclude-my-own-visits
    - johnisgood 2y ago
      >This setting applies per website, so you will need to do this for each website you want to be excluded from. Would it not be better to just have a blacklist it could ignore localhost and whatnot?

by xz18r 2y ago

baxtr 2y ago

Have you tried the similar tools as well like matomo?

xz18r 2y ago
I have checked them out and decided not to go with it since it was overkill for my situation. Like I said, I don't need a whole lot more than visits, geo, referrer, and track events[1] which work really nicely. If I ever do need a GA4 alternative for 'serious' purposes though, I might consider Matomo as it seems a lot more complete. [1] https://umami.is/docs/track-events https://umami.is/docs/track-events

pastorhudson 2y ago

I really like the simplicity of the ui. I’m curious what makes it immature vs mature in your opinion?

xz18r 2y ago
There are options missing from the admin panel or the dashboards that intuitively seem basic. Some examples: - excluding certain data from your report (such as localhost visits) - setting a default time range - on the 'overview' of all your domains, setting a time range that applies to all and not just one domain individually (this particularly felt really counterintuitive) There is more I'd come up with if I actually pulled it up, but the overall throughline is that it just feels 'too basic' at this moment. Especially for something that goes beyond tracking visits on your personal blog and/or hobby website.
- pastorhudson 2y ago
  Thank you excluding localhost is a feature I didn’t know I needed till your comment. Makes total sense.
- cobertos 2y ago
  You can exclude your own visits (like localhost visits) by manually setting a localStorage entry on the browser you don't want to report statistics. https://umami.is/docs/exclude-my-own-visits https://umami.is/docs/exclude-my-own-visits
  - johnisgood 2y ago
    >This setting applies per website, so you will need to do this for each website you want to be excluded from. Would it not be better to just have a blacklist it could ignore localhost and whatnot?