Umami is a website analytics tool that counts visitors and shows how people use a site without using cookies. It is for website owners who want traffic stats and can run it on their own server or use the cloud version.
Plausible is a web analytics tool that shows how many people visit a website without using cookies or storing personal data. It is for website owners who want simple traffic stats and a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
Matomo is a web analytics tool that shows how people use your website, and you install it on your own server. It is for website owners who want to keep their visitor data under their own control.
GoatCounter is a web analytics tool that counts website visits without tracking individual users with unique identifiers. It is for website owners who want simple, privacy-friendly statistics, either as a hosted service or run on their own server.
Shynet is a web analytics tool that shows how visitors use a website without using cookies. You host it yourself, so visitor data stays with you, and it suits personal projects and small to medium websites.
Open Web Analytics is a self-hosted tool that counts visitors and page views on your websites, so you keep control of the data. It is for site owners who want an alternative to Google Analytics.
Prisme Analytics is a web analytics service that shows how many people visit a website and what they do there, without using cookies. It is for website owners who want simple traffic statistics and can run it themselves or use a hosted version.
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Trench is a system for recording and querying events that happen in apps and websites, such as button clicks or sign-ups. It is aimed at teams that want to run their own analytics pipeline and keep their data.
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Read the list of open-source alternatives at https://opensourceeverything.org/data/groups/analytics.json. Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
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Here is a list of open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, from Open Source Everything (CC BY-SA 4.0):
- Umami (MIT, https://github.com/umami-software/umami; replaces fully): Umami is a website analytics tool that counts visitors and shows how people use a site without using cookies. It is for website owners who want traffic stats and can run it on their own server or use the cloud version.
- Plausible (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/plausible/analytics; replaces fully): Plausible is a web analytics tool that shows how many people visit a website without using cookies or storing personal data. It is for website owners who want simple traffic stats and a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics.
- Matomo (GPL-3.0, https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo; replaces fully): Matomo is a web analytics tool that shows how people use your website, and you install it on your own server. It is for website owners who want to keep their visitor data under their own control.
- GoatCounter (EUPL-1.2, https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter; replaces fully): GoatCounter is a web analytics tool that counts website visits without tracking individual users with unique identifiers. It is for website owners who want simple, privacy-friendly statistics, either as a hosted service or run on their own server.
- Shynet (Apache-2.0, https://github.com/milesmcc/shynet; replaces fully): Shynet is a web analytics tool that shows how visitors use a website without using cookies. You host it yourself, so visitor data stays with you, and it suits personal projects and small to medium websites.
- OpenWebAnalytics (GPL-2.0, https://github.com/Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics; replaces fully): Open Web Analytics is a self-hosted tool that counts visitors and page views on your websites, so you keep control of the data. It is for site owners who want an alternative to Google Analytics.
- Prisme Analytics (AGPL-3.0, https://github.com/prismelabs/analytics; replaces fully): Prisme Analytics is a web analytics service that shows how many people visit a website and what they do there, without using cookies. It is for website owners who want simple traffic statistics and can run it themselves or use a hosted version.
- Trench (MIT, https://github.com/FrigadeHQ/trench; replaces partly): Trench is a system for recording and querying events that happen in apps and websites, such as button clicks or sign-ups. It is aimed at teams that want to run their own analytics pipeline and keep their data.
Compare it with my project or idea below. Tell me which projects overlap, what I could reuse instead of rewriting, and what mine does that none of them do.
My project or idea:
