Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
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Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
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#2A side project I've been working on for a while now. Ackee is a self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. It runs on your own server, analyses the traffic of your websites and provides useful statistics in a minimal interface. If you have any questions or feedback, just write it here :) Thanks!
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#3There is a huge need for massive innovation in this field. As with many other products Google came in and sucked all the air out of the room. I'll be installing this on my website.
Re: Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
#4A side project I've been working on for a while now. Ackee is a self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. It runs on your own server, analyses the traffic of your websites and provides useful statistics in a minimal interface. If you have any questions or feedback, just write it here :) Thanks!
Looks good! We removed analytics from our sites for privacy and simplicity reasons so I’ll consider this. Does it use JavaScript clientside or hook up to express or nginx or both?
Before google analytics I remember there were a few self hosted tools in this space. Would you mind adding a list of the most current ones that people are using? I need to get caught up.
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#5Do I need to add the javascript to get any data or can I also just use the nginx logs?
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#6Do I need to add the javascript to get any data or can I also just use the nginx logs?
Ackee uses a JS snippet to get the data. Nginx logs won't work, but the API is fully documented and it should be possible to build an import / custom script. Could be a great addition :)
Re: Show HN: Ackee – Self-hosted website analytics
#7A side project I've been working on for a while now. Ackee is a self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. It runs on your own server, analyses the traffic of your websites and provides useful statistics in a minimal interface. If you have any questions or feedback, just write it here :) Thanks!
Piwik/Matomo is a popular tool in the same space. How would you compare Ackee to Matomo (tech aside)?
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#8Looks very nice! Simple, clean, and attractive.
This seems to me like a perfect job for a serverless solution, given how popular static sites have become. Serverless would provide minimal cost when you don't have a lot of traffic (and could scale if you get HackerNews'ed).
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#9> for those who care about privacy.
As a user, I dont see tracking by specifically google being the problem; what I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted or not.
There's "caring about privacy" in the subheadings, yet there's a whole section in docs about collecting private data [1]. Empty words.
I've used goaccess [2] in the past to provide traffic analytics. It reads from nginx/apache logs. You only get access to what browsers send anyway, and users who alter their user agents are in the minority, so they wont affect analytics much.
[1] https://github.com/electerious/Ackee/blob/1cf7779/docs/Anony...
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#10> for those who care about privacy. As a user, I dont see tracking by specifically google being the problem; what I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted or not. There's "caring about privacy" in the subheadings, yet there's a whole section in docs about collecting private data [1]. Empty words. I've used goaccess [2] in the past to provide traffic analytics. It reads from nginx/apache logs. Yo…
Sounds like a difference in perspectives; you as a user think of data about you as personal and private, while an operator of a site using Ackee thinks of their sites' tracking data as private. Quite amusing, really. :)