analytics

(Why is it these kinds of discussions get snotty so quickly?) I don't know how else an end user can express their preference. IP addresses are PII under the GDPR with enough context - although honestly I don't want to go down that horrible rabbit hole. But sure, sure, the site operators can do whatever they please. It's just Plausible banging on about being privacy friendly and ethical seems a bit ironic and is frustrating to see. Edit: The DNT flag is explicitly ignored by Plausible as well: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/646

i'd recommend Plausible personally using them as API to integrate analytics for my customer's sites main reason i choose Plausible is because it is made by a EU-based company honouring EU privacy values, meaning no cookies, no personal data collection and easy data export the team is very responsive and are happy to take feedback they are sustainable and make money offering a hosted service https://github.com/plausible/analytics

FYI: if you start on an endeavour like this in order to get around uBlock Origin blocking your existing analytics platform, you will probably end up disappointed; if you do it just for your one site, you may well get away with it, but if you share it with others or if your site is popular, it will be added to popular blocking lists before long. In fact, if writing such a thing myself I would be strongly inclined to deliberately style my URLs so that they matched an existing rule in EasyList or similar. I have nothing but scorn for the likes of https://github.com/plausible/analytics/discussions/387 where site owners are saying “oh no! our tracking script has been blocked! how can we work around the visibly-expressed intent of the end users and give them something that does not serve them and which they have demonstrated they don’t want?” S

We're working on GA import at the moment[1], it will be the next big feature we land. As with everything we will integrate and test with our large customer base on the hosted version and then release it for self-hosted as well. Next release is planned in Q2. 1: https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466

Thank you! I'm the maintainer of the project and it's so heartwarming to see it being recommended on this forum. All the projects mentioned here are great. What I think sets Plausible apart is that we've managed to create a profitable business around a 100% AGPL-licensed codebase (i.e. no dual-license for enterprise version). This means we can keep investing into the product and adding new features without being in the 'thankless OSS maintainer' role that so often ends in burnout. We're currently working on importing historical data from Google Analytics into Plausible[1] which should make switching even easier for many folks. Stay tuned. 1. https://github.com/plausible/analytics/pull/1466

I use plausible for my very low traffic side project, mostly because it's easy to host yourself and free if you do so. https://github.com/plausible/analytics

https://plausible.io/self-hosted-web-analytics (https://github.com/plausible/analytics)