At Glass, we're big supporters of open source. A lot of our platform is built upon it.
We've kept a list of some of the best open source analytics platforms. We think it's most useful for the tracking of small websites, as tracking popular websites becomes a 'big data' challenge.
Here's our most recent list:
- Matomo - A popular open-source analytics platform that offers privacy-focused and self-hosted analytics.
- GoAccess - A real-time web log analyzer that runs in a terminal or on the web.
- Plausible - A lightweight and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
- Ackee - A self-hosted and privacy-friendly analytics platform designed for Node.js.
- Open Web Analytics (OWA) - A full-featured web analytics framework that tracks visitor behavior on websites and applications.
- Umami - A simple, privacy-focused web analytics platform that is easy to use and self-host.
- GoSquared Analytics - Open-source real-time analytics tool, though not exclusively open-source in all components.
- Fathom - A privacy-first analytics platform, with a self-hosted version available.
When Self-Hosted Analytics Makes Sense
We're big fans of data privacy, and self-hosted web analytics is a step in that direction.
Self-hosted makes sense when you have the resources and infrastructure to host and maintain your own analytics.
As website traffic grows, it makes more sense to use a paid-for solution like Glass.
