Ask HN: What do you use for privacy focused analytics?

3 points·garyhbutton··10 comments

Hi,

What do you use for website analytics? I am working on a small side project and I have used Google Analytics in the past but am looking for something a little more privacy focused, what do you use?

I would like to know how many people are coming to my site and a bit of a breakdown of geo, referrals, and such.

-Gary

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Plausible is solid, and since you're on Phoenix there's a bonus - it's written in Elixir and their engineering blog is a great read. To the cookieless question: the practical win is that there's no consent banner to build, not the ideology. (Biased: I'm building statable.com in the same space, also cookieless.)

For your purposes, I think all you need is a web server log analyzer. Back in the day, I used Webalyzer to do this. I haven't done any sort of analytics since then, so I don't know what's the best one now. A web search turns up a ton of modern options, though.

Let me look, I do use elixir / phoenix but I am sure there is some tool that will work with that. Thanks.

I self host Umami. It was a one click deploy from their GitHub Readme. Been using for over a year, more than pleased. It has all the features you’re looking for without GA.

Thank you will check it out.

Matomo, self-hosted, loading data from webserver logs. No cookies or privacy notices needed.

Thanks, will check it out

Has anyone tried Plausible or Rybbit? Is cookieless important to you or is it a nice to have?

I've been building Swetrix for the last 6 years. It's OSS and cookieless, happy to answer any questions

https://swetrix.com https://github.com/swetrix/swetrix

Will check it out as well, thanks

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