This reminds me of https://usefathom.com/!
Both solving an important problem in my eyes.
GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data
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#13Just set this up on my little side-project site, as I was curious if anyone was actually finding / using it. Wish I found this a month ago when I launched it!
For anyone interested, the site is https://www.videogamesbyyear.com, and if you want to see the statistics screen, I made them public here: https://videogamesbyyear.goatcounter.com/
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#14Looks nice. I’m somewhat surprised we haven’t seen an obvious alternative to Google Analytics yet. It’s got a wide and deep surface area. But feels like for the majority of eg B2B SaaS apps there’s a much simpler solution to be built. Something that conves mainline scenarios like: - what channels / sites / campaigns is my traffic coming from? - what pages are people landing on? - what pages are driving conversions? -…
What about Matomo[0]?
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#15Took about 3 mins to get working with my jekyll github pages site. Very simple, informative backend panel too. Thank you very much. Shall be donating!
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#16How do you know it doesn't need a consent notice? Anything that tracks people uniquely, via a personal identifier, is in-scope and counts as personal data. Is the assumption here that it counts as 'legitimate interest'?
More on this can be found on the Privacy page: https://www.goatcounter.com/privacy
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#17This reminds me of https://usefathom.com/ ! Both solving an important problem in my eyes.
It was actually written as an alternative to Fathom! My original plan was to contribute to Fathom until it suited my needs, but the Open Source version of Fathom is on indefinite hiatus and the maintainers are working on a (closed) rewrite. I decided that starting from scratch would be better, as there were some things I would have preferred to do fundamentally different. What I really wanted was to add analytics to another idea I was working on, and while it's a cool idea that everyone I pitched it to seems to like, it doesn't have any good monetisation options, so I decided to work on this first.
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#18Finally a simple counter with no tracking. Most companies use Google Analytics, because the current alternatives are lacking. Piwik is a good alternative but harder to configure.
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#19Just set this up for my blog https://fnune.com/
Thank you!
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#20Looks nice. I’m somewhat surprised we haven’t seen an obvious alternative to Google Analytics yet. It’s got a wide and deep surface area. But feels like for the majority of eg B2B SaaS apps there’s a much simpler solution to be built. Something that conves mainline scenarios like: - what channels / sites / campaigns is my traffic coming from? - what pages are people landing on? - what pages are driving conversions? -…
It's not that surprising that someone hasn't come up with a product as comprehensive, and most importantly "free". That's a lot of infrastructure.