Alternatives to Google Analytics
Ackee
Clicky
- Paid plan: 1M (actually 30K/day) for $10/month, but limited to 10 sites
Counter.dev
- Source available: AGPLv3
- Self-hosting “may be possible with some tinkering”
- Golang
- Redis
- Pay what you want
Count.ly
- Source available: AGPLv3 + no rebranding
- Written in JavaScript, data in MongoDB
- Self hosting (but “Community Edition” only)
- No public pricing for hosted
- also has error logging
etracker
- No source
- Free: 25K/month
- Paid plan: 79 euros/month for 1M page
- EU-based
Fathom
- Lite version has source: MIT
- no self-hosting
- Paid plan: 1M for $54/month
Freshlytics
- Source available: MIT
- Written in TypeScript, data in PipelineDB (which is on top of PostgreSQL)
GoAccess
GoatCounter
- Source available: EUPL
- Written in Go, can store data in PostgreSQL
- Free to self-host
- Free plan (100K hits)
- Paid plan: 1M for €30/month, includes custom domain
- JavaScript or tracking pixel
- live demo
GoSquared
- Free is 1K
- Paid plan: 1M for $99/month
Gauges
- No free plan, no source
- Paid: 1M/month for $48/month
- Looks dead: no blog updates since 2016, html glitches during onboarding
- Nice UI though
kis3
- Source available: MIT
- Written in Go, data in SQLite
- only self hosting
- JavaScript snippet
Matomo
- aka Piwik
- Source available: GPLv3
- free self hosting
- Paid plan: 1M for $169
PanelBear -
- No source: source for integrations only
- Free plan: 1K/month
- Paid plans: $99 for 1M
Ping
- Source available: MIT
- only self hosting
- Written in Go, data in MySQL
Pirsch
- open source - AGPLv3
- Paid plan: $54 for 1M ($36 if billed annually)
- Written in golang, data in Postgresql
Plausible
- Source available: MIT
- Written in Elixir/Phoenix, data in PostgreSQL
- No support for self-hosting
- No free plan
- Paid plan: 1M for $36/month
- JavaScript
- Integration with Google Search Console
PostHog
- more detailed tracking (mouse clicks, etc)
- $29/month for 500K “events”, more is “contact us”
- free plan for startups
- Python
- Postgresql
Privalytics
- Source available: no license file
- Written in Python (Django), data in ?PostgreSQL?
- self hosting
- Hosted: 1M for $6/month
- Looks abandoned
Redistats
- Paid plans: 1.5M for $19/month (100 websites)
- demo
S3Stat
- No source, no self hosting
- only for AWS S3 and CloudFront, but reports include hosting costs
- Paid plan: $10/month or >200K/day for $50/month
- Webalizer reports
Shynet
- No Saas, only self-hosted
- Apache license
- Python
- Postgresql
- free
Simple Analytics
- No source, no self-hosting
- Paid plan: 1M for $59/month
- JavaScript, tracking pixel or API
StatCounter
- paid plans: 1M for $39/month
- paid plans limit length of history, not hits per time period
Umami
- Source available: MIT
- No Saas, only self-hosted
- JavaScript
- MySQL or Postgresql
Wide Angle
- No source
- paid plans: 3M for $46/month
- Free for “select” non-profits or open source projects
Bridge: Analytics Library
Previous generation server-side
- AWStats
- Webalizer
- Analog (and ReportMagic)
- Sawmill
DIY
- cube.js
- sisense
- pcmaffey - in Google Sheets (!)
- Make your own pixel tracker with AWS Kinesis Firehose and AWS Redshift
- Tracking pixel - user project that uses a tracking pixel to track w/o server log access
DIY Components
- ClickHouse DBMS
- Apache Druid
- GCHQ Stroom
- Meltano - MIT-licensed dashboard
- Singer - source - ETL/data processing
- Apache Superset - dashboard from AirBNB
- metabase - dashboard source
- gauged
Other lists
To research
- Snowplow, source
- Bridge: RudderStack
- Bridge: Segment
- Fair Analytics - last update May 2018
- Fugu - source, focused on app analytics, AGPL, ruby
- Scarf.sh - source, more than just web
- TinyAnalytics - last real update May 2017
- LogSwan - server-side source
- Chartbeat - no pricing
- Woopra - 5M hits for $1K/month (but free plan includes 500K/month)
