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Umami: Own Your Website Analytics

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This looks cool, but almost exactly like https://plausible.io/, even (albeit vaguely) right down to the UI...

Is plausible.io self hostable?

Yes: https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics

I don't know why you'd pick one over the other, I haven't looked that deeply into either. For all I know Umami is a fork of Plausible. If this is better than the commercial Plausible instances then Plausible can copy those features over with ease and vice versa. That's the power of open source!

Plausible is AGPL while Umami is MIT licensed.

Compare this to the self hosting guides on umami where they literally give you a one-click-deploy button. https://umami.is/docs/running-on-heroku

Umami wins hands down

One option to look for is https://volument.com which focuses on insights

I inadvertently clicked on the link. My first thought was "Did Plausible rebrand without telling me?"

I believe it's because both products appear to be using https://tailwindui.com/

Been seeing a lot of web analytics stuff here lately. Just want to shout out https://counter.dev I use it on my site and can’t recommend it enough.

I looked at the live demo and it told me that the average visit time for the site was -17s.

You can get all this and more with goaccess, without the negative visit times.

Or maybe the average was DOWN 17 seconds, hence why it's red. I understand that could be more clear but...

That’s the difference since last week. The actual value is above the label in bold — the difference is in a much smaller red font below.

Now that you point that out, it’s obvious. Snark retracted.

The benfit with GoAccess is that you don't need the consent banner like you do with JavaScript trackers [1], cookies or not.

[1]: https://volument.com/privacy-is-the-future

I have been using this for around a year and it has been great. I've been upgrading it regularly and so far nothing broke. I use a local self hosted mysql dB.

I did make 1 small change- ad block was blocking the upload being called and I renamed the api so that ublock does not block it anymore :)

Anyone using this and care to provide an honest review? We’re evaluating chucking a paid alternative due to the price (small startup).

I just switched to Umami last week, from Plausible, basically because plausible requires Postgres and Clickhouse db, and I did not want to add any more admin overhead due to Clickhouse, a db I have little experience with. With Umami I only need Postgres.

Depends on what you're looking for, whether you just need basic stats or more product-focused data. You could also have a look at https://www.uxwizz.com

Very timely - I heard about this a few days ago (after having some concerns about using Google Analytics on my blog), and plan to implement it in the next couple of days.

anybody have a free database solution to go with my free netlify instance? otherwise I'll just pay Netlify for their analytics package and forget this ever exists

ElephantSQL has a free tier: https://www.elephantsql.com/

Fly.io does, haven't tried it myself though. Link is for postgres but I think it'll work for just about anything, the free tier is just 3gb of disk space and a small compute node.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/postgres/

Heroku is the classic free db (and free app hosting). Fly.io is an alternative that also gives you both.

On heroku you can create a bunch of free small DBs and apps, and on fly it's 3 services (container or db node) per account I think, but unlike Heroku, your apps won't go to sleep.

that's interesting, fly.io is definitely winning

I'd be doing Netlify + Fly.io then

Heroku too antiquated in pricing and offerings, their free db addon is too small, but interesting idea about just making a bunch. on the db offering fly.io is very competitive and generous

Well, Heroku Postgres is more "managed" than fly who basically just hands you some nice tooling to do it your self. I don't think they set up backup for you. For me personally, Point-In-Time recovery is maybe the most important thing about managed PG.

Also worth a mention are the free tiers of the "cloud scale" SQL new kids Planetscale (MySQL/vitess) and CockroachDB (mostly postgres-compatible).

Then there is supabase which also includes a postgres DB and AWS where you can run a small RDS instance free for 12 months.

Used to use this - liked it a lot. Great work on the design :)

Why did you stop?

EOL'd my app.

This looks super neat. Often I think that analytics are the wrong metrics. In business you want sales, not web click metrics. If you put the customer first all else follows.

A simpler analytics does it for me, I will give this a go.

Analytics measures what you want.

If you want sales, then you're also gonna want to evaluate the sales funnel to see where friction in the online sales process can be reduced, and if you're big enough do some fancier things like A/B testing.

I will agree that a lot of people look at analytics often far too divorced from their business goals. If you care about sales of X, then you probably shouldn't be too invested in regularly looking at most of the big site level metrics unless you're trying to alter those to improve sales of X.

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