Adblockers block all of those services, right?
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
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#82I 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've been using plausible like 8 months now, i very like it!
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#83I 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 recommend Plausible, I am a happy customer for maybe over one year. It is lightweight and easy to use interface at a great price.
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#84The best alternative is to server side aggregation of visit statistics without storing any info sent by visitors (such as IP address, user agent etc).
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#85Adblockers block all of those services, right?
Not necessarily. Depends how they’re implemented.
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#86Is there a good reason not to use GA for client side analytics? Is the juice worth the squeeze for a self-hosted/ FOSS solution?
Obvy client side isn't as 100% as looking at the logs, but I've worked with Adobe Analytics and GA (on the free plan) for a few years. UI in GA is much more intuitive to me than Adobe, and I use the tight integration with Google Datastudio pretty often to make reports or slide decks.
Personally I like the well documented GA API to run reports against + python and R API wrappers. For me the only downside is the level of sampling they use. With Adobe Analytics, the API is not as well documented, but they don't sample like GA, but also I wouldn't want to front the Adobe Analytics bill every month for my side projects.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
crontab.guru is really amazing
Does it advice on systemd timer jobs too?
Re: Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?
#88I find it a bit frustrating that most analytics tools does not have support for sending events through api calls. Like in mixpanel where it is possible to send events from backend rather than embedding a js on frontend. Why is it so?
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#89Why are most tools for analytics so expensive? Compared to other saas products I find them to be at least. Is there a significant amount of traffic that is the reason? I was thinking about implementing something myself once, but was worried about the cost of receiving all the event traffic.
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#90Earlier quoted context omitted.
Disclaimer: Plausible Analytics founder here I think Matomo is quite similar to Google Analytics which many people feel is bloated and confusing from the user's perspective. The idea with Plausible is to simplify web analytics and make it more understandable compared to what GA/Matomo offer. Granted, Matomo does have more depth and features in some areas. It can be the better choice if you want to go very deep into a…
Have you done a comparison with PostHog? I see a lot of people here recommending them also
PostHog is more focused on product analytics rather than web analytics. It's a very different product to Plausible so we didn't really do a comparison with them. I would say they're more of an alternative to Mixpanel, Amplitude and those type of products rather than an alternative to Google Analytics and other web analytics tools.
(the second Plausible cofounder here)