Seb Dancer-MichelCreative developer Intern @ Your Majesty
What are some good, lightweight, open-source alternatives to Google Analytics?
I'm looking to get rid of Google Analytics (too much added loading time for my websites). Do you have any in mind?
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- Peter GenčurDesigner & Developer · WrittenDeserves to be mentioned as it's around for quite a while. It was recently renamed from Piwik. Not sure about performance side but don't know any other which could compete with Google Analytics feature-wise.I can't speak for the rebranded version, but piwik was a great analytics solution and paired well with many popular CMS flavors. For example, Dreamhost used to offer it as a one-click goodie for easy management, and it tied in well with WordPress.
- Peter GenčurDesigner & Developer · WrittenJust a few months old, looks promising. Rather simple one.
- 27Smartlook Qualitative Analytics
Free user recording, heatmaps and analytics for sites & apps
Lukas MehnertB2B SaaS Marketer · WrittenSmartlook is getting you the best insights combining session recording, automatic event tracking, funnels, retrospective data, and heatmaps.Leo Le RoyMarketing consultant · WrittenThis tool provide realy usefull qualitative data like session recording and heatmaps - Not sure its lightweight and not sure it counts as an alternative. But Fullstory's free tier has really helped us understand what our users were doing, with no extra cost.I would definitely recommend this tool, and would also checkout Heap Analytics (www.heapanalytics.com), it's like Google Analytics on steroids.
- Maria Yelena ZalatovaMarketing consultant · WrittenIt is realy similar to GA, so the learning curn is quite short
- Reasons why I would suggest using Heap over Google Analytics: 1) They have automatic event tracking. So every pageview, click, form submission are tracked without additional work. 2) The Event Visualizer feature is a work of art and makes things 10x easier to create custom events. 3) They offer better insight in visitor tracking, and you don't need to set up custom configurations like you do in Google Analytics. I would also checkout this link for a deeper comparison between Google Analytics and Heap Analytics – https://heapanalytics.com/compar...
- 3SnowPlow
- Gorkem CetinProduct guy. Passionate maker & helper · WrittenGorkem Cetin made this productYou can use Countly as a self hosted solution for your web, mobile and desktop apps. Community Edition is downloadable from Github: https://github.com/countly/count...
- 2HitstepsArmin Nikdelfounder, developer · WrittenIt is not Open Source, but their code is minified and optimized and it only load after your website is fully loaded, therefor it does not slow down or add any additional time to website loading time. Hitsteps free forever plan is suitable for most startups during their early stages.
- Indicative is great for mapping customer journeys and flows plus the free plan offers up to 1 Billion user actions/month. Much deeper insights than GA
- Marko SaricCo-founder Plausible Analytics · WrittenMarko Saric made this productI'm working on Plausible Analytics. Modern dashboard, simple metrics to understand, open source, lightweight script (<1 KB), no cookies and doesn't collect personal data so no need for cookie/GDPR consent banner
- Hendrik Niefeld made this productIf you are passionate about open source software and looking for a truly lightweight and privacy focused alternative you should give Offen a try.
- James LePageIsotropic, ShareClub, CodeWP · WrittenIncredible features like heatmaps, open source, and a lightweight mode (8kb script I think)