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Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

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Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!

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Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Observed mentions: 2015-09-11 00:09:39 UTC to 2023-05-17 19:31:13 UTC.

024682015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 0 submissions, 6 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 5 mentions; 0 submissions, 5 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 8 mentions; 1 submissions, 7 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 1 submissions, 2 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2023

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC505
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC817
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC312
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303

What Hacker News says

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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
In Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2023
Is anyone here familiar with Matomo? I noticed the linked page attempts to run it before seeing it mentioned, because Ghostery blocked it. It's a “Free software alternative to Google Analytics” “which can easily be configured to respect your visitors' privacy”[0] (emphasis mine). But can it be configured in a way so you can claim “without any tracking code”? I wonder whether the claim in the headline was supposed to be merely “no third-party tracking”. [Edited to add:] Waiiit a moment, is the intended meaning simply “no Google tracking code”? (I don't think the article addresses this anywhere; hope I didn't just miss something.) Or maybe I'm supposed to know that “no tracking” is jargon for something like ”attempts to not store PII” in this industry? I doubt that it can be configured such that, for example, unique visitors are statistical
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ly estimated instead of counting unique IDs from tracking cookies — but I'm too lazy to research that in detail, so it would be interesting to hear from someone who knows more. [0] https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo
In Techdirt Is Now Without Any Google Ads or Tracking Code
Some additional ideas: - Kanban - Kanboard ( https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard ) - Analytics - Matomo ( https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo ) - Content Management System - Grav ( https://github.com/getgrav/grav ) - Knowledge Base - BookStack ( https://github.com/BookStackApp/BookStack ) - Browser - Firefox ( https://github.com/mozilla ) - Image Manipulation ( https://github.com/GNOME/gimp ) - Observability Platform - Zabbix ( https://github.com/zabbix/zabbix ) - Password manager - KeePassX ( https://github.com/keepassx/keepassx )
In Open-source alternatives to popular B2B tools
I’ve worked with a GA implementation before which I don’t recommend if you want to own your data or if you want unsampled, detailed logs. I’ve also seen a full end to end implementation that uses server log shipping to s3, log parsing and complicated ETL processes which I also don’t recommend due to the sheer effort it would take to build. I’d say go with something like Matomo (formerly Piwik) https://matomo.org. If you wanted to build your own, I’d suggest keeping it simple. Look at Matomo’s architecture and replicate https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo.
In Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?
Hey there, Could you please explain your use-case? Depending on your use-case, there are multiple solutions that fit in different use-cases. Plug & Play Solutions: Matomo: It's basically on-premise Google Analytics, it stores the data on Mysql and provides pageview & event metrics. (https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo) Countly: It's the extensible version of Matomo on top of Mongodb. While storing the raw data might not be their best bet, if you're looking for event analytics dashboard with pre-built features, it's definitely worth trying out. (https://github.com/Countly/countly-server) Self-service Solutions: Snowplow: It's an enterprise level event analytics solution. It's really extensible and it supports many different data-warehouse solutions such as Elasticsearch, Redshift, etc. but not that easy to learn & maintain. (https://githu
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b.com/snowplow/snowplow) Rakam: Similar to Snowplow, it collects and enriches event data and stores it in your data warehouse. We support Postgresql, Snowflake, and Prestodb at the moment. Unlike Snowplow, you send the event data without defining the schema, we generate the schema on the fly for you which makes it similar to Amplitude. (https://github.com/rakam-io/rakam) Disclaimer: I'm the maintainer of Rakam.
In What are some open-source tools like Amplitude and Kissmetrics?

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