goatcounter

Nice, how is it different from: https://github.com/umami-software/umami https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter https://github.com/swetrix/swetrix https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch

GoatCounter: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter?tab=License-1-ov-file

> How do you deal with location data, do you purchase maxmind db license or use their free versions. > Both maxmind and db-ip free versions of city data miss city geo id values, rendering city data useless for many cases. I work for IPinfo. I think you might find my conversation with Goatcounter's dev interesting: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/issues/765 I pitched him to use our free country database because of MaxMind's EULA issues. MaxMind does not permit distribution of the database and requires end users to use their own token. Moreover, they actually charge thousands of dollars when you distribute the "free" database with a commercial intent. Now, we have a free IP to Country database that we offer under a straight CC-BY-SA 4.0 license without an EULA. It is free, comes with daily updates, has full accuracy, and you can even

> https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/master/db/schema.... - number of IDs is actually 7, not 6. the point is that some/many of those ids are not timezone and country, and potentially can grow high in cardinality.

> cherry picked some fictional example What an incredibly rude and dismissive accusation. Here's my table: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/master/db/schema.... – number of IDs is actually 7, not 6. I can give a lot more details and context on all of that and why it works the way it works and the savings are certainly not insignificant and theoretical, but save me real money in server costs every month. But I have little interest in talking to you further since you're just going to insult everyone who tries to inject the slightest nuance into "always use bigserial"-extremism. So good day to you.

I'm self-hosting GoatCounter and using it across all my websites. Apart from controlling my data, I also have more accurate visitor statistics, as it doesn't get picked up by script blockers, unlike GA. https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter https://www.goatcounter.com

This is not directly related to Counter, but here is a nice explanation of how GoatCounter[1] has implemented session tracking: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/sessi... [1]: https://www.goatcounter.com

here are some for you to consider: https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/plausible/analytics https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter All 3 of them open source and you can host yourself. If you don't want to self host all 3 have options for you. I am currently self hosting Matomo and am happy with it. Fun timing for you to ask as just running a poll to see what others are using: https://fosstodon.org/@softinio/109689221718875173

I'm a little bit confused by their use of EUPL (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Public_Licence), can anyone summarize the direct impact, e.g. what shouldn't you use it for? Ah - their use of EUPL was actually modified so it is only compatible with "AGPL v3 and OSL v2.1, v3.0" (https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter/blob/master/LICENSE). So really it seems this should be considered as licensed as those two.

Going to a wrong URL shows the Github Pages 404. Searching Github: https://github.com/journal-doi/cough https://github.com/the-pudding/cough https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter (bonus material)

I've been very happy with goatcounter as well. If you're looking for self-hosted the repo is here: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

If you are willing to go a bit more hands on: * Use a CDN which provides access logs (AWS Cloudfront, logs are stored in S3, Azure supports this too i think) * Feed those logs into a self-hosted analytics solution, like goatcounter [1] [1] https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter

I'll throw a shoutout for a top tier project - https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter Using it for some personal stuff, and does absolutely everything I need it to, and then some. I love the ethos of the project, and whilst it's open source, there's a hosted option that looks super reasonable too.

I have been using goatcounter [0] and love the simplicity. I used to use Matomo, but they want a lot of money to see the referrals from google search/etc. And it's a heavier dependency. Goatcounter is a drop-in golang binary. [0]: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter