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Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

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post #37

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It is self hosted

how is it able to handle cost of self-hostin cost ?

It means that you can install it in your own server, be it physical, colocated, rented or anything else. So you're the one paying for the infrastructure but you're also in control of your data.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#102
post #35

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This is the issue I've found with every open source product. I'm perfectly happy to pay for an analytics product, so the best I've been able to find is adobe Omniture. Unfortunately that's a 30 - 100k price tag. There is definitely a market for a powerful analytics platform at a reasonable price.

Since it sounds like you've tried a good number of options, what do you think about Mixpanel? We used it at the startup I used to work at and I mostly enjoyed it although we didn't go to deep.

mixpanel is neat but gets very expensive very quickly.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

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post #2

For people looking for similar options, there's also Matomo[1] (previously Piwik) that you can self-host for free. [1] https://matomo.org/

unfortunately, matomo is harder than necessary to automatically deploy to containerized environments like heroku because they don't support the 12 factor principles [1]. a cynic might assume that this is because it would undermine their own hosted solution. [1] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo/issues/6223 (i would use matomo if they fixed this issue)

We use Matomo in containers, you can write configs with the incoming hostname and it works pretty well.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#104

I think I tried this a month or so ago. It looked great, except for the one fatal flaw that stopped me from actually deploying it: It doesn't support multiple sites per installation, and I don't want to have to deploy one server per site.

https://oribi.io does that and more.

Disclaimer - it's neither self hosted nor free (nor very expensive), and I was previously a part of the team that built it. I can honestly say no data is being sold to 3rd parties, as should be expected from a paid service.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#105
post #88

> web services do crappy things with that data. (Hey Zuck, how was Congress?) Is this kind of snark really necessary in top marketing copy? I get what you are saying in terms of freemiums ins and outs, but I don't know if it should be my first impression to your company's message. To each their own, just feels a bit cheap IMHO.

author of that line here: i don't want to live in a world where companies can't have a little fun with some copy.

I for one enjoyed the cheekiness and believe the copy sells the vision of the software quite well. Bravo.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#106
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's admittedly confusing, but I think I'm still right and that you may be conflating policies about other google services. From your second link, which is specific to Analytics, it says: > What is the data used for? > Google uses Google Analytics data to provide the Google Analytics measurement service to customers. Identifiers such as cookies and app instance IDs are used to measure user interactions with a custome…

I'm pretty sure GA data doesn't intermingle with AdWords targeting profiles in a default configuration. If that was true, then Google wouldn't consider it a violation of its ToS for HIPAA-covered entities to use its analytics product. "If you are (or become) a Covered Entity or Business Associate under HIPAA, you may not use Google Analytics for any purpose or in any manner involving Protected Health Information unle…

GA has per site unique cookies. It cannot very well build profiles that the conspiracy theories accuse it of.

As for the quotes terms, the same are there for any personal information (in my EU-based account at least) and you grossly misread it: it says you cannot send Google protected classes of information, not that you cannot use GA at all.

The reason is obvious: Google does not want to have any legal obligations from running GA. Same with forbidding storage of personal information.

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#107

I think I tried this a month or so ago. It looked great, except for the one fatal flaw that stopped me from actually deploying it: It doesn't support multiple sites per installation, and I don't want to have to deploy one server per site.

We hear you. This is pretty much top on the list of things to add in the (very) near future!

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

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post #2

For people looking for similar options, there's also Matomo[1] (previously Piwik) that you can self-host for free. [1] https://matomo.org/

Google - google analytics vs piwik , hit the first result and you will realize matomo is nothing like analytics

Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#109
post #81

Or use the original self-hosted-at-scale open source solution, Snowplow ( https://snowplowanalytics.com/ ). These guys have been solving self-hosted digital analytics for years now, and have consistently proven to be one of the best options for real-time digital data tracking, triggering, and analytics. Their qa/schema focus is especially nice in teams where multiple people are contributing data but you want to make…

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Re: Fathom – Simple, trustworthy website analytics

#110
post #81

Or use the original self-hosted-at-scale open source solution, Snowplow ( https://snowplowanalytics.com/ ). These guys have been solving self-hosted digital analytics for years now, and have consistently proven to be one of the best options for real-time digital data tracking, triggering, and analytics. Their qa/schema focus is especially nice in teams where multiple people are contributing data but you want to make…

The only install instructions i could find, where to run a vagrant VM.

Would like to know how to deploy for production.

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