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Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by input_sh »

XCSme wrote: post #36
kerng wrote: post #2

I switched to it about a year ago to get rid of Google Analytics. Quite happy with the decision.

Where are you hosting it and how much do you pay for it? Do you have a lot of visitors?

Any cheap Hetzner dedicated (~30€/month) can handle tracking thousands of daily visits without breaking a sweat.

If we're talking about 10s of thousands, you're gonna need to invest in some SSD (€50-70/month probably).

If we're talking about dozens of sites, some of which have millions of yearly visitors (and a bunch of plugins and reports that need to be generated), then you're gonna encounter some issues and have to spend a considerable amount of time optimizing every part of it, and hardware cost will rise to a hundred or two per month.

Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by y42 »

input_sh wrote: post #51
XCSme wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where are you hosting it and how much do you pay for it? Do you have a lot of visitors?

Any cheap Hetzner dedicated (~30€/month) can handle tracking thousands of daily visits without breaking a sweat. If we're talking about 10s of thousands, you're gonna need to invest in some SSD (€50-70/month probably). If we're talking about dozens of sites, some of which have millions of yearly visitors (and a bunch of plugins and reports that need to be generated), then you're gonna encounter some issues and have t…

To add another level: To track millions of requests per day for a couple of sites, it will probably cost around 1k - 5k per month, hosting on AWS. It's advised to use not the cheapeast hoster here, because any little outage directly affects every site that implements your tracking technology.

Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by y42 »

mattmcknight wrote: post #44
wartijn_ wrote: post #28

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I assume most tools will block Matomo as well. I know uBlock origin with the default blocklist does.

This is why you self host it, to avoid a third party cookie.

Still not help if you consider GDPR et al. rules, at least in the EU.

Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by pabe »

codyogden wrote: post #31
deepstack wrote: post #30

Any one know a node alternative to GA? Matomo is great, but for something like GA, node would be best option for handling large amount of http requests.

I started using Umami (Node/Next) to replace GA on my major site (70k/30days). It provides the data I care about seeing, and nothing more. Public preview: https://analytics.kbg.rip Project: https://umami.is

I'd also recommend this one. Relatively "basic" data but it's GDPR compliant and easy to install and update. Big thanks to the author!

Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by ffpip »

XCSme wrote: post #34
ffpip wrote: post #21

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Did you change the license? I think I stumbled upon your website on HN comment a few months ago. Didn't it be free? Great product and an excellent demo!

Thank you! userTrack was never free, but I did change the pricing model from lifetime, to yearly to now being one-time payment + yearly payments for updates. I would love to make userTrack free if I can find a sustainable way to work on it. Most other similar open-source software offers a "hosted" version to get revenue, but my goal is to promote decentralization and self-hosting in general, so me focusing on the hos…

> userTrack was never free...

Sorry if it seemed like I was complaining about the pricing change. I was just wondering whether I remembered it correctly from here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24207129)

It's a great product. People will pay for it.

Re: Matomo: Open-source analytics platform

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Post by capableweb »

looperhacks wrote: post #42
deepstack wrote: post #30

Any one know a node alternative to GA? Matomo is great, but for something like GA, node would be best option for handling large amount of http requests.

Why would you need node to handle "large amounts" of http requests?

Of course you don't have to have nodejs to handle large amounts of http requests, if you spend enough time you can get any language/framework to handle the amount you need :)

But, seems that at least in the TechEmpower framework benchmarks, es4x (JS) ends up on position 9 while the closest PHP framework ends up at 13. Now it's just a small benchmark with specific tests, but I do think it's easier to make NodeJS handle large amount of requests than PHP. Although again, you can definitely do large amounts of requests with PHP too. I've spent about 5 years on each, found that getting good performance out of V8 is easier than out of PHP.

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