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Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#11
Is there any analytics kind of product that just pulls information from web server access logs?

There are lots of cases I can think of where I wouldn't be all that interested in gathering Google Analytics level data and would be fine with being able to do a bit of analysis about unique users and usage patterns. (beyond doing it myself with a log aggregator and creating my own dashboards)

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#12

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

Agree - not an option for everyone. Free version for personal websites or websites with visits/month would be great.

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#13

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

I'm building one that's both cheaper (mostly free but at most $2 a month) and faster than Fathom. I'm onboarding some customers but I'm planning to launch in January!

http://sdan.io/pingpong

If you want to stay updated, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/BZA7thD878PbKnSs8 and I'll keep in touch soon.

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#14

Is there any analytics kind of product that just pulls information from web server access logs? There are lots of cases I can think of where I wouldn't be all that interested in gathering Google Analytics level data and would be fine with being able to do a bit of analysis about unique users and usage patterns. (beyond doing it myself with a log aggregator and creating my own dashboards)

Check out Logflare.

In either case, I'm building a cheaper and faster version of Fathom (http://sdan.io/pingpong). Currently I'm onboarding some customers. I'll try to see if I can incorporate web access logs as well.

If you want to stay updated, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/BZA7thD878PbKnSs8 and I'll keep in touch soon.

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#15

Is there any analytics kind of product that just pulls information from web server access logs? There are lots of cases I can think of where I wouldn't be all that interested in gathering Google Analytics level data and would be fine with being able to do a bit of analysis about unique users and usage patterns. (beyond doing it myself with a log aggregator and creating my own dashboards)

Funny enough, Urchin was exactly this.

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#16
post #13

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

I'm building one that's both cheaper (mostly free but at most $2 a month) and faster than Fathom. I'm onboarding some customers but I'm planning to launch in January! http://sdan.io/pingpong If you want to stay updated, fill out this form: https://forms.gle/BZA7thD878PbKnSs8 and I'll keep in touch soon.

Good luck. Building a sustainable business at $2 / month will be hard but we wish you the best :)

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#17
post #12

This is interesting... but I have a personal website, I won't pay ~$150/year for this service (my whole box is about $200/year). Is there any free alternative to google analytics, including self-hosted approaches?

Agree - not an option for everyone. Free version for personal websites or websites with visits/month would be great.

Lite - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#19

Is there any analytics kind of product that just pulls information from web server access logs? There are lots of cases I can think of where I wouldn't be all that interested in gathering Google Analytics level data and would be fine with being able to do a bit of analysis about unique users and usage patterns. (beyond doing it myself with a log aggregator and creating my own dashboards)

GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) looks interesting, though I haven't had the chance to play with it yet.

Re: Make your website a black hole to big tech

#20

Is there any analytics kind of product that just pulls information from web server access logs? There are lots of cases I can think of where I wouldn't be all that interested in gathering Google Analytics level data and would be fine with being able to do a bit of analysis about unique users and usage patterns. (beyond doing it myself with a log aggregator and creating my own dashboards)

Goaccess works this way.

https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess

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