Goat Counter
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Opensource and privacy conscious analytics
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 has some good discussion
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https://www.goatcounter.com/
An open-source, free-to-use web analytics platform, GoatCounter is available as a hosted service for non-commercial use or as a self-hosted app. It offers an easy way to track web analytics without invading your user’s privacy.GoatCounter offers a lightweight solution for data analytics on your website. By only adding around 3.5 KB of extra data to your code, it keeps track of statistics such as browser information, location, and screen size. In addition to this, it also keeps track of referring sites and campaigns.
It offers an easy-to-understand interface, providing the same functionality and tools as most other web analytics software. Since GoatCounter is fully open-source, you have access to the code. This means that you can edit the code to make improvements or self-host it.
GoatCounter also offers a no-JavaScript image-based tracker and doesn’t track users on your site with unique identifiers. This can help provide a more secure and safe way for you to collect user data.
Price: Free for non-commercial use.
