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Monday, February 18, 2019

Free Software for Web Analytics

This is a personal note. I've been looking for a Google Analytics replacement. These are alternatives to Google Analytics I came across today:

  • Nothing. Yes, nothing. Simply do not track anything, that may be the best way to go as it respects visitors' privacy.
  • AWStats: ugly for modern standards. Based on log files. I recall experimenting with this several years ago. It may be a fine solution to avoid adding JavaScript snippets to a site.
  • JavaScript-based and self-hosted:
    • Matomo (previously called Piwik): seems to be the best of its kind. Well maintained, full of features. Big focus on its commercial offering of hosted service. Matomo on GitHub.
    • Open Web Analytics (OWA): looks less fancy. Seems to be more community oriented, no business around. Open Web Analytics on GitHub.
    • Fathom: maybe the newest kid in the neighborhood. Built with Go and Preact (a smaller React-compatible JS library, first time I hear of it). Fathom on GitHub.
Other pieces of software might be worth a look. No software also deserves a lot of consideration.

See a list of web analytics software on Wikipedia for more.

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