Pirsch Analytics: https://pirsch.io
Only the core (golang) is open-source though, so you won't get the dashboard.
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#22https://panelbear.com/ isn’t open source but privacy friendly. I found it on HN (the founder is on here), can’t speak more highly of it. If you are tracking more than one site and want to get a good overview I recommend it.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#23I wrote two articles about this for LWN last year. Several of them are self-hostable. Summary: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ : lightweight options: GoatCounter and Plausible (open source), Simple Analytics and Fathom (closed) https://lwn.net/Articles/824294/ : more alternatives: Matomo and Open Web Analytics (fairly heavyweight but both open source), Countly (open core), Snowplow Analytics (open source but enterpr…
I've been a Snowplow user for nearly a decade. It's a bit of work to set up, but it's the best engineered of all those options.
Snowplow's JSON schema events and contexts give you complete flexibility to define a data model that suits your business. Combined with DBT and a BI tool, like Apache Superset, it's vastly more capable than Google Analytics. We have clients running Google Analytics 360 that can't do the stuff we're able to with Snowplow.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#24I wrote two articles about this for LWN last year. Several of them are self-hostable. Summary: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ : lightweight options: GoatCounter and Plausible (open source), Simple Analytics and Fathom (closed) https://lwn.net/Articles/824294/ : more alternatives: Matomo and Open Web Analytics (fairly heavyweight but both open source), Countly (open core), Snowplow Analytics (open source but enterpr…
I've been a Snowplow user for nearly a decade. It's a bit of work to set up, but it's the best engineered of all those options. Snowplow's JSON schema events and contexts give you complete flexibility to define a data model that suits your business. Combined with DBT and a BI tool, like Apache Superset, it's vastly more capable than Google Analytics. We have clients running Google Analytics 360 that can't do the stuf…
I've also used Snowplow fairly heavily (several years ago). It's good for big stuff where you need lots of control and data customization, but it's significantly overkill if you just want basic analytics for your blog or small business website.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#25Plausible, Matomo
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#26I'm using https://umami.is for 5 sites. I also tried https://ackee.electerious.com/ but didn't like it.
Now I would probably try https://plausible.io/
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#27I wrote two articles about this for LWN last year. Several of them are self-hostable. Summary: https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/ : lightweight options: GoatCounter and Plausible (open source), Simple Analytics and Fathom (closed) https://lwn.net/Articles/824294/ : more alternatives: Matomo and Open Web Analytics (fairly heavyweight but both open source), Countly (open core), Snowplow Analytics (open source but enterpr…
Fathom started as an open source project and then closed- when called on it one of the cofounders got extremely hostile and lied about saying it would stay open (then blocked people who shared the screenshots).
Plausible on the other hand has been really engaged with the community on their Github Discussion board.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been a Snowplow user for nearly a decade. It's a bit of work to set up, but it's the best engineered of all those options. Snowplow's JSON schema events and contexts give you complete flexibility to define a data model that suits your business. Combined with DBT and a BI tool, like Apache Superset, it's vastly more capable than Google Analytics. We have clients running Google Analytics 360 that can't do the stuf…
I've also used Snowplow fairly heavily (several years ago). It's good for big stuff where you need lots of control and data customization, but it's significantly overkill if you just want basic analytics for your blog or small business website.
For sure... Bit overkill for that unless you're using Snowplow mini. A good rule of thumb to decide on Snowplow is whether you're considering GA 360.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#29Posthog! You can host the analytics yourself or let them host it for you.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#30I 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
I also like plausible - low cost for a low traffic site, but without all the more intrusive tracking/features that google has. I use it on about a dozen sites I develop/maintain.
Also has a self-hosted option which is 'free', but you need to pay to host it someplace. I just pay them instead.