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I've used Piwik (piwik.org) before with success. It's fairly extensible as well.

• UnoriginalGuy 12y ago
  That looks pretty interesting. We'd need to install MySQL for that in particular, but honestly we could just single-box the Piwik and basic infrastructure it requires (PHP, Apache, MySQL). Thanks for the suggestion definitely something I'll be looking into further.
• mooreds 12y ago
  I will second piwik. I've used it on my own sites. The only issues I've found: * not quite as mature as GA (to be expected) * little support from vendors. For example, I wanted to use piwik for my leanpub books, but that wasn't possible. If you don't want to set up a mysql box, etc, there is a piwik hosted option, which costs money (looks like $65/month for 300k hits, as of this writing: https://piwik.pro/cloud#pricing https://piwik.pro/cloud#pricing ). Side note, I wonder if piwik pro pricing is a good proxy for the minimum amount of value/month that GA provides google?
• MalcolmDiggs 12y ago
  I think this a great option. I've also heard good things about AWStats (awstats.org), but I think that might be intended more for the backend (log files and such).
• zhte415 12y ago
  Another vote for Piwik, which I find great in many cases including one in particular: when you're in situations where Google services are blocked (such as China, or visitors from a similar firewall, perhaps corporate). Any website that uses Google Analytics has no clue how many China visitors they have (or visitors where Google Analytics is firewalled), unless they adopt their own metrics program. Plus, you hold the data, and you govern how the data is used (or, not used). That is a huge bonus too for many folks.