Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics

Post by mcao » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:01 PM UTC

anderspitman wrote: post #104

mcao wrote: post #69

Hi everyone! Author of Umami here. I totally did not expect this response so it looks like you all hugged my little server to death. The demo should be back up now. A little background. This is a side project I started 30 days ago because I was tired of how slow and complicated Google Analytics was. I just wanted something really simple and fast that I could browse quickly without diving through layers of menus. So I…

Since it's self-hosted, is there a reason you went postres rather than something simpler like sqlite or even flat files?

Post by blahblah4332 » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:04 PM UTC

mcao wrote: post #111

blahblah4332 wrote: post #109

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This would definitely be really interesting if it had the ability to create analytics in response to UI interactions. There are a lot of SPAs out there that use analytics for feature tracking, and the self-hosted aspect would fit well with those users.

Event tracking is already supported in the build. I just haven't completed the UI components yet. You simply add a custom CSS class on an element and it will automatically be tracked.

Post by volument » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:16 PM UTC

diafygi wrote: post #35

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

Of these, do any have a funnel tracking feature that shows what visitors went through a specific series of pages/events? Seeing how users moved about the site and seeing how many converted is a deal breaker for me.

Post by sorenbs » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

mcao wrote: post #113

sorenbs wrote: post #102

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This is a really cool project. I’m happy to see that you are using Prisma for data access. If you are interested we can set up a shared slack channel so you can provide feedback and we can make sure we support everything you need for this project :-)

This is my first time ever using Prisma and I'm a huge fan of it already. It did run into a few gotchas and would love to discuss.

Post by basilgohar » Tue, Aug 18, 2020, 6:52 PM UTC

gentleman11 wrote: post #85

vs4vijay wrote: post #23

Looks neat! will explore. Also, I did research on alternatives to GA few days back, might be helpful of someone: https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics https://matomo.org/ https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/usefathom/fathom https://www.goatcounter.com/ https://plausible.io/ https://github.com/PostHog/posthog https://www.usertrack.net/

The problem with matomo (not their fault) is that Microsoft flags your site as distributing malware and you disappear from search engines. You have to fill out a bunch of forms to fix it. It’s listed in the matomo faq and is basically either from a bot falsely reporting you, or some other glitch. It’s why my blog is still invisible to bing users: if you visit in edge, you get huge menacing red warnings.