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Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Looks like a great tool! Questions: I think you might be based in the Netherlands(?), how does UXWizz conform to European laws of privacy? I see that it tracks IP addresses, is that legal? How does it handle cases where people don't respond or opt out of eu cookie consent? Thanks!
> Looks like a great tool! Thanks! I spent over 8 years working on it, I am still improving it :) There is a page regarding privacy here: https://docs.uxwizz.com/about/personal-data-information > I see that it tracks IP addresses, is that legal My specific instance of UXWizz does not track IP addresses (you can disable that in the tracking settings), but only a hash of the IP+User Agent. As for the privacy laws regar…
> As for the privacy laws regarding tracking IP addresses, it's not very clear whether it requires consent or not as the law is ambiguous. The IP itself alone can not be directly considered personally identifiable information (PII) as having an IP address only, can not define which real person is the data associated with.
"PII" has a specific meaning, in American law. Sites with references to it are likely not relevant to you, as you are based in Romania. The GDPR is crystal clear that IP addresses are personal data. There is no ambiguity. Depending on how you derive the hash of the IP and user agent, this could also be an "identifier" that may be personal data.
But! There are six different reasons you can legally process personal data. Consent is only one of them. It is quite likely that a website owner would have a valid legitimate interest basis for having analytics. This does not require consent from the user.
The only caveat to that; is that if the analytics needs a cookie (or local or session storage item) then you must seek consent for the cookie.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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I've been a Snowplow user for nearly a decade. It's a bit of work to set up, but it's the best engineered of all those options. Snowplow's JSON schema events and contexts give you complete flexibility to define a data model that suits your business. Combined with DBT and a BI tool, like Apache Superset, it's vastly more capable than Google Analytics. We have clients running Google Analytics 360 that can't do the stuf…
What do you use to visualise the data you collect with Snowplow? I think folks forget that a significant part of the value from GA is how it presents the data in an easy to understand manner for non technical users.
We use Superset and R markdown reports mostly.
It's quite common for us to rely on Snowplow as a source of truth, but use GA for quick exploration. Certain reports in GA are setup so nicely, like "navigation summary" and the more intuitive session definition for marketing. And while Snowplow is real time, there's no effective way to see the same reports as produced by GA.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#144I 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 installed Plausible a few hours ago on my VPS. The installation process when very smooth and it gives me the data I'm interested in. I really did not want to use Google Analytics, and since I have some capacity left on my server, Plausible seemed like a good bet.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Regarding PostHog: If am a Startup & still running my beta product, $1500 per month is very expensive for managed service. They should charge it by number of API requests. Then I can start using this and naturally grow into the product. I really do not have bandwidth to self host when I am busy solving core customer problem.
I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.
We need to include high availability, disaster recovery, managing db, security & other good stuff if we need to run in production. This is where managed services excel. I do not want to do all these if I am in early stage of a startup.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Do the PostHog Android and iOS libraries automatically collect & report metrics like OS version & app version so I can easily track how many users are on each version? We're still using Flurry right now but looking for a replacement.
Yep! See [0] for an overview of the properties we automatically collect [0] https://github.com/PostHog/posthog-ios/blob/8734361939c46647...
Cool, I will check it out. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#147I find it a bit frustrating that most analytics tools does not have support for sending events through api calls. Like in mixpanel where it is possible to send events from backend rather than embedding a js on frontend. Why is it so?
GraphJSON supports API calls :) Founder here. If you have questions let me know!
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not affiliated with PostHog nor am I privy to their internal tradeoffs; I therefore can't comment on how they should charge. However, their self hosting modality is rather straightforward: it's a docker-compose. It takes a few minutes to set up and mostly just works.
We need to include high availability, disaster recovery, managing db, security & other good stuff if we need to run in production. This is where managed services excel. I do not want to do all these if I am in early stage of a startup.
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#149https://counter.dev/
Thanks for mentioning, glad to see counter popping up organically ;-)
I'd say what differs us from others is aiming at providing user value for free by aggressively optimizing hosting costs. But you don't need to care about that, it looks great and works and is free. For way over a year now. Cheers
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#150It's probably not the answer you want to hear, but don't use any analytics platforms. Let users be completly anonymous. :)