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Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by dclusin »

I use GoAccess. It's an offline access.log analytics engine. One feature it has is to generate static site from its db. I have an hourly cron script that picks up the last hours logs and generates a static site. You can see it in action at https://www.clusin.com/analytics/

1 - https://github.com/allinurl/goaccess

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by PStamatiou »

Been using Fathom for a few months now (after migrating away from Gaug.es which I've had for at least 6-7 years prior but they got acquired by some random companies that has zero support and makes no improvements) and have been loving it so far. They're really responsive and always improving things. I like that I can cname the tracking script to my domain

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by scoutt »

gorkemcetin wrote: post #171

Countly [1] is another open source alternative to Google Analytics - suggest you try it on Digital Ocean [2] or deploy on your own [3]. It is self hosted, has support for desktop apps, mobile apps and web apps at the same time. [1] https://count.ly [2] https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/countly-analytics [3] https://github.com/countly/countly-server

Interesting. Thanks. But I am not so sure about disabling SELinux:

> Disable SELinux on Red Hat or CentOS if it has been enabled. Countly may not work on a server where SELinux is enabled. In order to disable SELinux, run "setenforce 0".

https://support.count.ly/hc/en-us/articles/360036862332-Inst...

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by forgotmypw17 »

chrismorgan wrote: post #157
bad_user wrote: post #115

I have my own self-hosted Matomo instance [1]. Via Docker & docker-compose it's quite easy to install and keep up to date and Matomo is open source, well maintained, very well behaved and pretty hands off. And I configured it on my websites with cookies turned off [2] and with IP anonymization [3]. In such an instance you don't need consent, or even a cookie banner, because you're not dropping cookies, or collecting…

I self-hosted Matomo for a year and a half (and took over the AUR package for it and improved it in the process). It was no trouble to run, but I ended up uninstalling it late last year, for a few reasons: its interface is painfully slow (and that’s nothing to do with my 1GB/1 vCPU VPS—I’ve interacted with a decent-sized instance at innocraft.cloud and it was similar), and I seldom looked at it, and I couldn’t think…

Is pagination supported in feeds?

It would be very useful. Like you said, it's nice when everything is accessible from the feed.

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by chrismorgan »

forgotmypw17 wrote: post #194
chrismorgan wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I self-hosted Matomo for a year and a half (and took over the AUR package for it and improved it in the process). It was no trouble to run, but I ended up uninstalling it late last year, for a few reasons: its interface is painfully slow (and that’s nothing to do with my 1GB/1 vCPU VPS—I’ve interacted with a decent-sized instance at innocraft.cloud and it was similar), and I seldom looked at it, and I couldn’t think…

Is pagination supported in feeds? It would be very useful. Like you said, it's nice when everything is accessible from the feed.
Deliberate semantics were defined for this as part of AtomPub, https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5023#section-10.1 (before that, it made sense that it would mean this because of the relations registry, but nothing had been defined). It’s clearly applicable to Atom syndication in general, but it’s definitely more useful to AtomPub. I have no idea how wide client support is.

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by Nextgrid »

divbzero wrote: post #187
Nextgrid wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Caches are irrelevant now that the world has moved to HTTPS.

There are no public caches with HTTPS, but there are still private browser and CDN caches to contend with. To ensure your origin server is hit on subsequent HTTPS requests, you would still need to configure response headers for cache validation [1] to be Cache-Control: no-cache instead of Cache-Control: private [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Ca...

Yes, but those are caches that you control, so when it comes to analytics you would get the logs off them too in order to get accurate metrics.

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by paulcpederson »

PStamatiou wrote: post #192

Been using Fathom for a few months now (after migrating away from Gaug.es which I've had for at least 6-7 years prior but they got acquired by some random companies that has zero support and makes no improvements) and have been loving it so far. They're really responsive and always improving things. I like that I can cname the tracking script to my domain

Also using fathom and really like it! Not having to put up a GPDR tracking popup is very nice, I find those quite annoying.

Re: Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics

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Post by ghawkescs »

JackWritesCode wrote: post #119
lhdj wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My company switched to Fathom from GA about 4 days ago. We build privacy software so it felt slightly hypocritical to use a privacy-intrusive service like GA. So far so good. I went from 0 to Fathom in under 20 mins and for our basic requirements it works really well . Good job Fathom team :)

Thanks so much, glad you had such a good experience :)

When I try to view your demo page I get 'Secure Connection Failed' every time. Firefox 77.0.1 on Windows 10.
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