Dan Cardin (Oct 11 2024 at 15:20): Dan Cardin (Oct 11 2024 at 15:20):@Jerod Santo did you somewhat recently in a kaisen mention a non-google analytics software that you either use or are familiar with...maybe that starts with a V?
Dan Cardin (Oct 11 2024 at 15:21):i feel like it wasn't plausible
Jerod Santo (Oct 11 2024 at 15:28):There's another one called Fathom Analytics that I'm familiar with, but haven't personally used:
Philip Durbin (Oct 11 2024 at 15:39):Matomo is fairly popular (formerly Piwik) and open source: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
Jerod Santo (Oct 11 2024 at 15:40):I stood up a Piwik instance waaaay back in the day and ran it for a couple years. Liked it, didn't love it. Been a long time though...
Dustin (Oct 11 2024 at 15:44):Depending on your needs, https://umami.is/ is nice. I self host for a bunch of sites and it’s enough if you just want page stats cookie free
Dan Cardin (Oct 11 2024 at 16:17):idk if our usecase is weird, but it's for an internal site; where we dont so much care about privacy. but rather as a way of avoiding manually implementing analytics in the app in question
so all these options where they're like "privacy first, we dont store any pii", the whole point for us would be to tie back to specific users
Dan Cardin (Oct 11 2024 at 16:17):but i maybe do think fathom was the one i remembered
Jerod Santo (Oct 11 2024 at 16:23):@Nick Nisi brought it up on https://jsparty.fm/336. Maybe he can speak to it?
Don MacKinnon (Oct 11 2024 at 17:14):i personally use Plausible on projects where I have the choice, seems to work decently.
Amolith (Oct 13 2024 at 19:21):Dustin said:
Depending on your needs, https://umami.is/ is nice. I self host for a bunch of sites and it’s enough if you just want page stats cookie free
+1, I self-host it for my site and have deployed it for multiple clients :thumbs_up:
Dan Cardin (Oct 18 2024 at 15:52):to close this loop, for whatever it's worth, we're "building" something dumb and simple directly into the ui/db and then using an open source BI tool to do the visualization.
Seems like the analytics tools are really only designed for public pages where gdpr/pii is a relevant concern
Patrick Arminio (Oct 19 2024 at 01:51):I use plausible and I'm pretty happy with it, it also allows to share your site data to the public: https://plausible.io/strawberry.rocks
Raúl (Oct 20 2024 at 19:24):I'm another happy paying user of Plausible. It's quite nice. I've heard very good things about Fathom as well.
Jouni Seppänen (Nov 18 2024 at 06:10):I like GoatCounter which doesn't track identifiable user data and so (AFAIU) doesn't require a GDPR notice. It does collect browser version, screen size and some level of geolocation data, all of which seem like legitimate information to optimize a site. It's free for "reasonable public usage" or you can self-host.
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