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

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Post by lizardmancan » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 2:46 AM UTC

lmkg wrote: post #150

mcao wrote: post #145

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I will probably implement the daily salt and remove the localStorage code as well just to be safe. But again, I'm not a lawyer here, where do you draw the line? Why not hourly salts? 5 minute salts? What is considered a reasonable effort? At some point you're storing data that can identify a user for the purpose of analytics. Still, I'm going try to lean to the safer side as best I can.

There are two paths to compliance with GDPR. Option 1: Accept that you're collecting Personal Data, and satisfy the obligations GDPR places on that. This means disclosing the use of analytics in your privacy policy (what data's being collected & why), listing retention periods, and figuring out how to satisfy requests like Access or Deletion (which may include "we can't identify you in the data we previously collecte…

there must be some reasonable level of keeping track of what goes on on your website. I think you could for example reasonably keep track of the last time a feature worked and the amount of resouces used by a thing over tine. An effort to streamline the process also seems beneficial to the user.

just random thoughts of course

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

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Post by nickthemagicman » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

edwinjm wrote: post #126

nickthemagicman wrote: post #65

Am I wrong for thinking that Google Analytics has bad UI? As a noob at UI it was bizarre and unintuitive for me. Just finding the region locations of the traffic was odd and didn't make immediate sense.

It's pleasure to work with compared to one or two years ago

Ok have to check it out. Last I looked was years ago. And I was like...there's no excuse for this bad UI from such a great company.

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

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Post by RobKohr » Fri, Aug 21, 2020, 5:25 PM UTC

rapnie wrote: post #34

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/

All open source: https://count.ly/ https://github.com/vesparny/fair-analytics https://goaccess.io/ https://www.kokoanalytics.com/ https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet

So many choices... Anyone have any favorites?

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

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Post by resynth1943 » Sat, Aug 22, 2020, 8:39 PM UTC

wizzwizz4 wrote: post #21

mikece wrote: post #6

Are there any "Google Analytics" alternatives that aren't based on Python, Node, Go, etc but something with a PHP back-end that can be deployed to any commodity LAMP hosting provider?

You could check the ReverseEagle list: https://developers.reverseeagle.org/replace/google-analytics... Also, anyone with a Tedomum account? It'd be nice if you could open an issue about adding umami.is. https://forge.tedomum.net/ReverseEagle/developers/-/issues

Oh thanks, we'll edit that in

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

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Post by gorkemcetin » Mon, Aug 31, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

superlupo wrote: post #198

Slightly off-topic: Does anyone have recommendations for self-hosted open source analytics that can handle a large volume site (think 500.000.000 impressions per month)? I can't imagine systems with MySQL/PostgreSQL as database can handle this.

Countly can do that, and much, much more.