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Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by tacone » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:11 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #10

ethor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matomo uses php

And it's "Wordpress easy" to setup and doesn't require special access or server config?

Yes. On the first run it will take you to a wizard to set it up.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by dsalzman » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:12 PM UTC

+1 to https://goatcounter.com/ o use it for my personal blog https://dannysalzman.com . This is a good reminder to donate.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by acidburnNSA » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:13 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #6

Are there any "Google Analytics" alternatives that aren't based on Python, Node, Go, etc but something with a PHP back-end that can be deployed to any commodity LAMP hosting provider?

Would awstats meet this criteria? Not PHP but even simpler. I have data from it going back to 2006 (maybe 2002 if I dig up backups), which is a lot of fun.

https://www.awstats.org/

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by johnchristopher » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:17 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #10

ethor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matomo uses php

And it's "Wordpress easy" to setup and doesn't require special access or server config?

There's even a plugin for wordpress that embeds matomo itself if memory serves right.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by ibdf » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

acidburnNSA wrote: post #13

mikece wrote: post #6

Are there any "Google Analytics" alternatives that aren't based on Python, Node, Go, etc but something with a PHP back-end that can be deployed to any commodity LAMP hosting provider?

Would awstats meet this criteria? Not PHP but even simpler. I have data from it going back to 2006 (maybe 2002 if I dig up backups), which is a lot of fun. https://www.awstats.org/

I remember once at a previous job one of the devs forgot to setup google analytics which was the go to tool at the time. Client calls in wanting to get some stats for their site after 3 months, and we had nothing... thankfully awstats comes with cpanel without any additional setup, and we had something to show. Not great, but better than nothing.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by johnchristopher » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:18 PM UTC

mikece wrote: post #10

ethor wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Matomo uses php

And it's "Wordpress easy" to setup and doesn't require special access or server config?

It's as easy as setting up GA in WordPress. Just inject the JavaScript snippet built by your Matomo instance when creating a new tracker.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by chrisblackwell » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:22 PM UTC

I'm very excited to see this space heating up. It seems for years we defaulted to using Google Analytics and no one wanted in the market. Now there are plenty alternatives, with many of them open source.

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:23 PM UTC

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Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by bambam24 » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:25 PM UTC

Clicked on love demo and get 505 bad gateway. I hope they analyzed it

Re: Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

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Post by moooo99 » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:26 PM UTC

johnchristopher wrote: post #16

mikece wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And it's "Wordpress easy" to setup and doesn't require special access or server config?

It's as easy as setting up GA in WordPress. Just inject the JavaScript snippet built by your Matomo instance when creating a new tracker.

I think the question was if the software itself is actually simple to set up with a commodity web host. As easy as upload via ftp and configure in webbrowser easy.