Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#32I 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…
> Matomo
Google may sometimes disable AdWords campaigns on sites that use Matomo. They "fix" it every once in a while when Matomo devs reach out to them, but the problem returns after a few months each time.
https://forum.matomo.org/t/adwords-campaign-rejected-for-goo...
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#33While not focused on OSS, this was asked 20 days ago at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29662859 as "Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?". It listed some OSS versions there.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#34Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#35https://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.
Panelbear is truly great. I moved crontab.guru to panelbear in October and I’ve been extremely happy. The site does millions of page views a month but the analytics are still fast and responsive.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#36https://www.goatcounter.com
I've been very happy with goatcounter as well.
If you're looking for self-hosted the repo is here: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter
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Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#38PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS.
I was using Avodocs (https://www.avodocs.com) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai, but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something.
I tweeted at them and they were lightning fast in reaching out and adding PostHog to the options of the the privacy policy template. It's really cool: https://twitter.com/jugurthahadjar/status/144733750656389120...
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#39PostHog: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog if you want to deploy it yourself and https://posthog.com if you want the SaaS. I was using Avodocs ( https://www.avodocs.com ) to produce a privacy policy for our MLOps platform, https://iko.ai , but they didn't have PostHog in the list for the "Analytics" section, and they assumed that doing analytics implied sending user data to a third party site or something. I tweeted…
+1 for PostHog!
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#40As I predicted around 2018, most or all analytics/events products will eventually move to ClickHouse or related technology (forks).
Plausible: ClickHouse
PostHog: ClickHouse
Panbelbear: Clickhouse
https://pirsch.io/: ClickHouse.
PD: I should have a blog or something where I put this predicts :)