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by rapnie 2344 days ago
https://usefathom.com/

https://goaccess.io/

https://github.com/NYPL/google-analytics-proxy

http://matomo.org/

https://ackee.electerious.com/

https://www.goatcounter.com/

https://count.ly/

5 comments

I gave many of these a visit.

fathom - Looks great. I am OK with closed source products (my motivation is self-hosting/privacy) but the direction is not clear to me. Maybe they will have a blog about it at some point - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268. Having multiple code bases is going to be super hard.

goaccess.io - this analyses web logs

google-analytics-proxy - project is dead

matomo - this is what i use now and it works great. has a lot of quirks but if you spend some time, you can make it work.

ackee, goatcounter - simple but looks like this does not track users/sessions. it's mostly for page hits.

countly - looks good if you are enterprise. there is no pricing :(

freshlytics (from another thread) - page says it's in beta and not production ready

GoatCounter author here: doing some form of session tracking is on the roadmap; check back in a few months. The project is still quite new, with the first "real" release only being last week :-)

As for Fathom, I find that last "since that people are confused"-comment rather funny, since their messaging on this has been confused for almost a year, haha

Will do! I am already following your project :)
- Simpleanalytics[0] (also commented elsewhere in this thread)

- Goatcounter also came up a few days ago on HN and got a lot of traction/discussion[1]

I can't find the comment it was posted in, but a HN user did a good comparison of a few privacy-focused analytics tools[2]

[0] https://simpleanalytics.com/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854

[2] https://dev.to/hmhrex/a-comparison-of-the-top-3-privacy-focu...

Edit: I found the OG comment for the blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21716544

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I think including prices in this list would significantly improve it.