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

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

#61

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.

Ironically how big is web on advertisements, but when the time actually comes to tell what the product is and does, they forget words.

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

#62
post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Confirmed! (I'm one of the founders)

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

#63

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/

+1 for matomo. Very easy to set up a self-hosted instance, good documentation, and works well. NB: My site is pretty low-traffic.

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

#64

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?

https://getinsights.io has event tracking for webapps but is not open source

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

#66

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

Keep in mind if you're using a CDN (ie CloudFlare) your absolute numbers will be way off.

This. Just got bitten by this by using Vercel’s serverless functions edge caching. More details: https://twitter.com/rayshan/status/1295521974479798274?s=21

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

#67
post #33

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/

posthog is really unfortunately named

I don't get it either. Not a native speaker, though. So could someone explain it?

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

#68
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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?

The advantage of Go is that you can compile it to a single (static) binary, and then it doesn't really matter what the rest of the backend is running. Unlike Python, Node, PHP, etc. you don't need to set up an environment.

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

#69
Hi everyone!

Author of Umami here. I totally did not expect this response so it looks like you all hugged my little server to death. The demo should be back up now.

A little background. This is a side project I started 30 days ago because I was tired of how slow and complicated Google Analytics was. I just wanted something really simple and fast that I could browse quickly without diving through layers of menus. So I created Umami to track my own websites and then open sourced it. The stack is React, Redux, and Next.js with a Postgresql backend.

Would be happy to answer any questions you have.

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

#70
I have been using goatcounter [0] and love the simplicity. I used to use Matomo, but they want a lot of money to see the referrals from google search/etc. And it's a heavier dependency. Goatcounter is a drop-in golang binary.

[0]: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter

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