[HN Gopher] GoatCounter: Open-source hosted/self-hosted web anal...
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GoatCounter: Open-source hosted/self-hosted web analytics
Author : brianzelip
Score : 90 points
Date : 2023-01-05 19:25 UTC (3 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.goatcounter.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.goatcounter.com)
| technotarek wrote:
| The biggest shortcoming here, from what I can tell, is custom
| event tracking (eg, click tracking). That was a high priority for
| us when we moved some projects from GA/universal.
| spiffytech wrote:
| GoatCounter added custom event tracking sometime last year. Not
| sure if it's what you needed.
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| https://www.goatcounter.com/help/events
| technotarek wrote:
| Yep, my bad. Thanks!
| salzig wrote:
| nice to see a alternative to https://plausible.io/. UI looks a
| little rough in comparison, but that's maybe more a matter of
| taste.
| windthrown wrote:
| The developer actually addresses this point:
| https://www.goatcounter.com/design
| yewenjie wrote:
| How does this compare with Plausible Analytics?
| dustedcodes wrote:
| My guess from looking at both products briefly:
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| Plausible Analytics charges you money so they can host your
| tiny page counter in their database and where you have zero
| control of your own data and still need to link to 3rd party
| tools. GoatCounter can be hosted via a container in your
| cluster and you own the stack, data and have no dependencies in
| your HTML with some javascript calling to an untrusted 3rd
| party.
| palata wrote:
| That's not really fair. I haven't used Plausible Analytics,
| but from a quick look it can be self-hosted, too:
| https://plausible.io/open-source-website-analytics#can-
| plaus...
| dustedcodes wrote:
| My mistake. As I said I only guessed based on a brief look
| at both homepages and the self hosting was not visibly
| advertised as an option when I had a look but I stand
| corrected.
| JLCarveth wrote:
| You can self-host Plausible.
| xavdid wrote:
| I've used goatcounter on my site for more than a year and have
| been very happy with it.
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| I don't need anything complex- I want to know if any pages are
| getting big traffic and it's nice to know which external links
| are getting clicked the most. Because I'm very low volume and
| non-commercial, I can use their free hosted service without
| guilt.
| tigroferoce wrote:
| I second this. I also am an extremely happy user of goat
| counter. Bravo, well done.
| jddj wrote:
| Same here, I use it on a small informational site to get an
| idea of referrers to occasionally go looking for feedback.
|
| It does what it says on the tin.
|
| Good software.
| batterylow wrote:
| I was after something like this a while ago. Settled on Umami
| https://umami.is/. Great projects!
| nop_slide wrote:
| Happy customer of goatcounter for my personal sites. It's the
| first project sponsored on GitHub.
| dang wrote:
| Related:
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| _GoatCounter - Simple web statistics, with no tracking of
| personal data_ - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22044854 -
| Jan 2020 (136 comments)
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