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Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

fiatjaf wrote: post #3

Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…

I did a few modifications - maybe it was an "adblocker" as well that prevented the demo to load for you. Would be so kind to try again? Thank you.

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

fiatjaf wrote: post #9
mtmail wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I saw empty demo pages as well. Turns out it tries to load a local /analytics.js file which my adblocker prevented.

Yes, exactly that. Thanks!

Awesome! Does the demo work properly?

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

fiatjaf wrote: post #8
fiatjaf wrote: post #3

Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access ( https://321analytics.com/analytics doesn't show any data). Also, I'm intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. "Upload the app files on my hosting" doesn't mean much, except if I'm a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What abo…

As a shameless self-promotion side-note, I have written https://trackingco.de/ too, which is kinda open-source too, but has a hosted version which is free while it's beta. But mine is much simpler and has much less features, mostly because storage is not cheap and I wanted to optimize to it.

I will check it out :)

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

stevesearer wrote: post #6

Looks interesting. I’ve been thinking about self hosting analytics so this is timely. I didn’t see any sort of feature comparisons available vs something like Matomo/piwik or hosted Google analytics. One thing that has kept me from self hosting and just using Google analytics is that I feel like Google probably does a good job at filtering out bots and spam where I’d be more unsure with a less mature option. Would be…

Thank you very much for your feedback. I will definitely add a comparison table soon - that's a very good idea! As I will be constantly improving the app (by the way: the app updates itself automatically when I release new updates) I will also try to improve filters more and more. Also, if users have any wishes or suggestions for improvement, I do my best to implement them as well. I'm going to run a few comparisons in the near future as this is a good point. Also, if you give 321 Analytics a chance, I would of course also be super happy to hear your thoughts and experiences.

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by ibdf »

Feedback:

Browser history is a must or at least some url paths to link to. Otherwise I have to keep going back to the metric menu for every action.

Each pages displays a whole lot of information. It's broken down nicely, but sometimes less information is more. Being able to focus on one type of graph/data rather then several blocks is easier.

The "plus" icon on some graphs expends and collapses (UI issue)

The UI colors seem really light. Might want to check for color contrast because I think this would fail accessibility.

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

ibdf wrote: post #15

Feedback: Browser history is a must or at least some url paths to link to. Otherwise I have to keep going back to the metric menu for every action. Each pages displays a whole lot of information. It's broken down nicely, but sometimes less information is more. Being able to focus on one type of graph/data rather then several blocks is easier. The "plus" icon on some graphs expends and collapses (UI issue) The UI colo…

Thank you for this awesome feedback! I will try to implement your suggestions as good as possible!

Do you think the orange/yellow UI itself is too light, is it the gray/white background combination or just some of the font colors that might have not enough contrast? Thanks for your help.

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by llccbb »

conradk wrote: post #17

When I see something like this, I immediately think: what's the difference with Piwik / Matomo ? https://matomo.org/

It looks like this isn't FOSS ($50 for a single website per year). The hosting structure is the same (self-hosted/you are on your own). Compared to Matomo this seems to work on SQLite in addition to MySQL.

Re: Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

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Post by magnus_b »

fiatjaf wrote: post #18
magnus_b wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome! Does the demo work properly?

Yes, it does, and it is beautful. I however found it a little too slow.

Awesome - thank you for this great feedback! It might be a little bit slow at the moment because I have been working on the whole site constantly today. Also the app does pull all the data in real-time so you always get the latest accurate metrics - which can take slightly longer compared to cached or estimated analytics data.
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