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

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Post by martin_a » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:50 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?

Totally! Just set an instance up the other day. Done in five minutes, you'll only need database credentials and a somewhat "normal" PHP setup.

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

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Post by KaoruAoiShiho » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:53 PM UTC

diafygi wrote: post #35

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.

Pretty sure posthog does.

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

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Post by hanspagel » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:54 PM UTC

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

don’t forget

https://simpleanalytics.com/

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

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Post by Deukhoofd » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:55 PM UTC

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

Any privacy oriented analytics tools not purely focused on website analytics?

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

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Post by buraksarica » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

I wish to see a line about backend platform on installation documentation. Yes, it's simple, but IMO no one will find "Umami requires bla bla platform on bla bla operating system." sentence useless.

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

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Post by rapnie » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #21

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?

You could check the ReverseEagle list: https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/google-analytics... Also, anyone with a Tedomum account? It'd be nice if you could open an issue about adding umami.is. https://forge.tedomum.net/ReverseEagle/developers/-/issues

Thanks! PS. there is a typo here (should be 'statisfy'): https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/google-analytics...

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

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Post by colechristensen » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:56 PM UTC

Is there a similar product that does this server side (without injected javascript telemetry) with http logs?

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

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Post by kirubakaran » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 2:57 PM UTC

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

https://github.com/PostHog/posthog looks great for product analytics. If you've used it, can you please share your experience?

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

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Post by johnchristopher » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 3:00 PM UTC

moooo99 wrote: post #20

johnchristopher wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Oops, my bad. You are totally right.

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

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Post by lilfermat » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

diafygi wrote: post #35

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.

Not out of the box but snowplow does if you model the data on your own.