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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

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Post by dom96 »

mcao wrote: post #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…

Nice! Question for you, how did you make that nice 3D image on the front page with various screenshots overlaid over each other? :)

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

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Post by mcao »

dom96 wrote: post #71
mcao wrote: post #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…

Nice! Question for you, how did you make that nice 3D image on the front page with various screenshots overlaid over each other? :)

It's all done in Photoshop. Just take screenshots, then transform, rotate, distort them to look flat. Then add some drop shadows for a 3d look.

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

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Post by tedivm »

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/

Fathom started as open source, but the founders stopped supporting the open source project. It's basically abandoned at this point, with no new releases in almost two years and only updates to the README.

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

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Post by mcao »

sahnasidol wrote: post #22

Is there any way to create and track custom events like clicks?

Yes, event tracking is already in the current build. I just haven't finished the UI components or documentation yet. But basically all you have to do is add a CSS class to an element and it will automatically start tracking. Like this:

  Signup

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

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Post by XCSme »

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/

Thanks for mentioning https://www.userTrack.net, I'm the author and still working full-time on improving it. Let me know if you have any questions/remarks about userTrack.

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

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Post by XCSme »

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?

I built one: https://usertrack.net

It has a plain PHP + MySQL backend, so it's really easy to install (on a LAMP server, as a WordPress plugin or one-click install on a DigitalOcean droplet).

When I started building it 8 years ago, the idea was exactly this, it should run on any basic shared hosting that can run PHP, so any site can just have its own analytics dashboard, without relying on 3rd parties.

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

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Post by robinhood »

hanspagel wrote: post #43
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/

It’s not open source.
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