This is great. I think there's a market for self-hosted/on-prem analytics software due to the mounting privacy fears and browser-default third-party request blocking. Outside of piwik/matomo, what else is out there?
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Piwik/Matomo is more like Google Analytics in the way it works and what you can do with it. Ackee will never be a replacement if you need full-featured marketing analytics with tons of options and insights. Ackee tries to be less. Lightweight, easy to install and with a good balance between analytics and privacy.
What about vs. the old perl script, awstats? I'm still using that, amazingly, after like 15 years. It does the basics fairly well, if a little ugly. I'm always looking for new cool stuff though.
Log file analytics does not work with Javascript apps.
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#43Is there a Jamaican connection, like in ackee and saltfish[1]? (Also famous from Harry Belafonte, "ackee rice / saltfish is nice")
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#44I was thinking "well if you still store user identifiable data it's still going to infringe privacy" but then I was satisfied when I read:
> No unique user tracking
on the site.
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#45I'd been hoping for an actively maintained spiritual successor to Inman’s Mint. https://haveamint.com
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#46Is there any sort of user management, so each user have access to stats about its own website? We are building a WordPress hosting company and would love to offer this as an alternative to Google Analytics to all customers.
Right now, each customer gets its own Fathom install, but I would prefer to have it centralised to make management easier and decrease the amount of non-standard packages on the WordPress containers.
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#47Is there any sort of user management, so each user have access to stats about its own website? We are building a WordPress hosting company and would love to offer this as an alternative to Google Analytics to all customers. Right now, each customer gets its own Fathom install, but I would prefer to have it centralised to make management easier and decrease the amount of non-standard packages on the WordPress containe…
Have you considered Matomo? https://matomo.org/
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about vs. the old perl script, awstats? I'm still using that, amazingly, after like 15 years. It does the basics fairly well, if a little ugly. I'm always looking for new cool stuff though.
Log file analytics does not work with Javascript apps.
True, but log file analytics work despite JavaScript being disabled in the browser.
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#49Is there any sort of user management, so each user have access to stats about its own website? We are building a WordPress hosting company and would love to offer this as an alternative to Google Analytics to all customers. Right now, each customer gets its own Fathom install, but I would prefer to have it centralised to make management easier and decrease the amount of non-standard packages on the WordPress containe…
Have you considered Matomo? https://matomo.org/
We have, but as mentioned by the author of this post, Matomo is more like Google Analytics. We want something simpler, with bigger focus on privacy.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you considered Matomo? https://matomo.org/
We have, but as mentioned by the author of this post, Matomo is more like Google Analytics. We want something simpler, with bigger focus on privacy.
Depending on where you draw the line on "privacy", Matomo can also be hosted by you, if you don't mind the extra burden, and one installation can track multiple sites.
Edit: Not advocating in favour of Matomo, it's just that it is a solution which seems quite full featured. Personally I found it painful enough to work with it (from a devops perspective) that I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot stick.