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I use umami. Its lightweight and doesnt have too many dependencies. https://umami.is/docs/features There is also goatcounter with a slightly uglier UI but it does its job well and consumes even less RAM than umami
PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…
Side question. Posthog describes an event pipeline. Is there a saas/open source server with event pipelines where you can do add logic to do things, like: send email, notifications, send api call, maybe add custom logic etc. Ive seen things like segment.io, but didn't find a straightforward solution. Example: - if a user finished three workouts, send this notification. - if a user hasn't done a workout in a week remi…
I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so. https://github.com/plausible/analytics
I also like plausible - low cost for a low traffic site, but without all the more intrusive tracking/features that google has. I use it on about a dozen sites I develop/maintain. Also has a self-hosted option which is 'free', but you need to pay to host it someplace. I just pay them instead.
We are using it on sites that generate between 15 and 100k monthly views [1], and it works flawlessly!
Also has a super easy API to add custom events (gone is the nightmare of configuring it in GTM)
[1] https://devitjobs.us and others
I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so. https://github.com/plausible/analytics
Plausible is enough for most, but it doesn't track as much as Google Analytics. It's enough to know which content works, but not enough to understand your users' behaviour.
However removing the cookie banner is a great UX improvement, and respecting your users' privacy is what you ought to do.
I'd also add that the maintainers were nothing short of excellent, and took care of two tickets I opened before.
I wrote two articles about this for LWN last year. Several of them are self-hostable. Summary: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ : lightweight options: GoatCounter and Plausible (open source), Simple Analytics and Fathom (closed) https://lwn.net/Articles/824294/ : more alternatives: Matomo and Open Web Analytics (fairly heavyweight but both open source), Countly (open core), Snowplow Analytics (open source but enterpr…
> Matomo Google may sometimes disable AdWords campaigns on sites that use Matomo. They "fix" it every once in a while when Matomo devs reach out to them, but the problem returns after a few months each time. https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...
I first used Matomo to monitor users webapp experience, it was amazingly simple to set up, good privacy protection/anonymisation, and perfect for insights on workflow patterns.
The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/ . I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.
Doesn't take too much resources, the UI is pleasant, the functionality is everything that i'd expect from a lightweight analytics solution like Plausible plus bunches of additional stuff in regards to enriching the data (e.g. events, information about devices and software, even performance data in the latest releases).
My only concerns so far are that if i try to open the aggregate view of all of my website data in the past month (Apart from that nitpick, it's also pretty reasonable as far as GDPR goes (there's a whole section of tools for it) - currently i don't even use cookies for tracking (a global toggle in the options is available, as well as config for individual sites), anonymize the IP addresses but have a GeoIP database set up (for free) that let's me figure out the approximate location and still get the device info which is enough to give me insights into who uses my sites and what screen resolutions etc. i should target.
Overall, i'm really pleased with my choice of Matomo!
Now, on the other end of things, i also think that most projects out there should have an APM solution of sorts, for which i use another piece of free software, Apache Skywalking, which is a bit more cumbersome, but still powerful and also Zabbix for server/VPS monitoring overall. It's really nice that we can set something like that up entirely for free (hosting costs aside).
https://www.goatcounter.com/
(well, most software probably feels more snappy than Jira, but Kanboard was also amazing)
It's still an early version, but basic things like tracking events with properties, and analzying those, work very well. I'm currently working on adding conversion funnels. It's free to self-host, and I provide a managed version for $9/month flat.
I've started Fugu because I wanted a product analytics software that is privacy-first (e.g., no possibility of tracking unique users), open-source and simple. I liked using PostHog but it got too fancy, complex and convoluted for my taste - a common theme among analytics software in my experience.
If you're looking for a pure web analytics solution, I can absolutely recommend Plausible (https://plausible.io). I also use it for my static page at Fugu.
Edit: Added GitHub repo link.
Why are most tools for analytics so expensive? Compared to other saas products I find them to be at least. Is there a significant amount of traffic that is the reason? I was thinking about implementing something myself once, but was worried about the cost of receiving all the event traffic.
Because their customers understand the value of the data and are willing to pay for it.