Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#1

Post by TekMol » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 7:25 AM UTC

Are there good alternatives for Google Analytics which you can easily host yourself?

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#2

Post by robin_reala » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 8:11 AM UTC

The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/. I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#3

Post by TekMol » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 8:32 AM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #2

The standard recommendation is https://matomo.org/ . I’ve used it in production once (when it was called Piwik) and it seemed reasonable, but I’m not sure how it stacks up right now.

Thanks, I will take a look at it.

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#4

Post by mtmail » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 9:24 AM UTC

https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics (https://github.com/plausible/analytics)

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#5

Post by XCSme » Tue, Jan 11, 2022, 7:18 PM UTC

I have been building a self-hosted analytics platform[0] (note that it's not free or open-source, just partially source-available) that is focused on the ease of self-hosting. It is most similar to Matomo but with a better performance, simpler UI and with features that they only provide in their paid plans.

I used simple technologies (MySQL/PHP) for performance and portability reasons and, compared to other self-hosted alternatives, it provides features that you can only find on expensive SaaS product-analytics platforms (heatmaps,session recordings,ab tests, etc.).

Let me know if you have any questions about UXWizz or self-hosting in general.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com/

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#6

Post by lbrito » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC

Shameless plug: I wrote a log-based analytics software that you can self-host on an Android phone.

https://github.com/lbrito1/android-analytics

Blog post: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2020/07/replacing_google_anal...

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#7

Post by john-doe » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 7:54 PM UTC

https://github.com/nullitics/nullitics

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#8

Post by ggoo » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 7:57 PM UTC

I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so.

https://github.com/plausible/analytics

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#9

Post by santamex » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 8:00 PM UTC

For questions like this I always consult:

https://alternativeto.net/

Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?

#10

Post by juriansluiman » Wed, Jan 12, 2022, 8:03 PM UTC

As stated by others already, there's Plausible (plausible.io) and Matomo (matomo.org).

I have used both and stuck at Plausible. A few reasons (subjective):

1. Plausible is GDPR compliant by default, it has an effective way to measure analytics throughout the day without cookies

2. It is simple and that's key. I don't need to know much, Plausible just gives me that

3. It's fairly lightweight. Matomo is quite heavy and as my VPS'es are pretty much scaled down, less is just more

4. The Plausible self-hosting doc is centered around Docker, which is the architecture I use myself and is set up in literally a few minutes