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Show HN: OnePageGA – Simple dashboard for GA4 like Plausible

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Just tried this for my site and WOW!! this is what Google should have built. Thank you for solving the GA4 mess

Hey everyone, I'm the builder

Fun fact, I wrote less than 100 lines of javascript. Built with Laravel and Livewire.

Is there any reason to prefer this over Plausible? GA4 has lots of problems (user privacy, legal liability, AI-generated statistics, tracker blockers) that Plausible mostly solves; and if you're self-hosting this, why not just self-host a Plausible (or Matomo) instance?

I work in an org where, despite the hell they put themselves through with GA4 I can't convince them to switch to Plausible or Matomo. Part of the reason is interoperability with their partners, but most of it is the mentality that they aren't paying for GA, and since its free they'll keep it. As you already guess this ignores the tens of thousands of dollars spent in stakeholders trying to figure out WTF they're looking at in GA.

And that's the final irony. If I show this to our GA users they'll say, "wow this is nice but we can't afford the $20/month."

GA4 is a lot more powerful than Plausible, plus we charge per site and not page views. If you want to self host than yes you can choose whatever OS tool you want.

Yeah, but why use the more powerful GA4 if you want a simple dashboard like Plausible?

Another concern with GA4 is that visitors data goes to Google – not good if you have privacy-minded customers. (Naturally, this shouldn't be a problem in your case as you market to those already using GA4.)

Could be that more than one person in the company uses GA4. One team might just need the basic stuff in a simple dashboard. Other teams might need the more detailed data you get from standard GA4.

Plausible is quite slow for large sites

Not bad. Solves a problem. I’m sticking with Plausible but if I was stuck with GA4 I would definitely use this.

You should consider a self-hosted option with a one-time payment.

Agree with the suggestion about self-hosted option. Is there one yet?

A few UI/UX suggestions:

-On mobile, the on-click text shown when clicking individual features in the pricing section are wider than the screen and cut off

-A couple typos found: https://triplechecker.com/s/947956/onepagega.com

Hey everyone, I just released onepagega.com. Like many of you I was frustrated with GA4's UI/UX. GA4 is super powerful but it's just so hard to use. I set out to solve this. I love the Plausible UI/ UX but wanted it for GA4.

Would love your feedback. thanks

Forgot to mention, to sign up, just use your Google account and select you property. Then a dashboard is instantly generated. Not other setup required.

This looks awesome Johnny , finally ga4 starts to make sense!

GA4 is like a free trial offering to upscale to Looker and google cloud products(paid)

I need this for my own product (www.paiger.co) to showcase the traffic we deliver in an easy way. Would you be willing to sell me the code but with a license that limits it's use to our reporting only and a non-compete with what you're doing? Would save me the development work and I'd happily pay for it.

Alternatively - can you "embed" dashboards you create on the agency package?

You can not embed yet, but we'll be working one public sharing option soon.

We've been a customer of Clicky for like 14 years. Even when GA was functional, clicky was my daily go to.

I too was frustrated with GA4 but a couple months ago watched a few hours of youtube tutorials and it really demystified GA4. It's quite a powerful tool if you take a couple days and build out the dashboards you'd like to see.

Do you have some links to the tutorials you found useful?

I rarely access GA on the desktop as I find GA's mobile app[1] way more convenient and readable.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...

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