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usefathom / fathom

fathom

Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

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Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

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Observed mentions: 2018-06-11 07:38:49 UTC to 2023-07-25 19:37:41 UTC.

0510152018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 6 mentions; 1 submissions, 5 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 13 mentions; 1 submissions, 12 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 15 mentions; 0 submissions, 15 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023

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20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC615
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13112
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15015
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

From the project README

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Fathom Lite - simple website analytics Fathom Lite is a previous and open-source version of Fathom Analytics (a paid, hosted Google Analytics alternative). It was the very first version of our software, and has been downloaded millions of times! While we are no longer adding features to this Lite version, we will be continuing to maintain it long-term and fix any bugs that come up. Fathom Lite vs Fathom (hosted) Today’s Fathom Analytics is a hosted product with simple pricing based on monthly pageviews. The same core capabilities are included on every plan: for example API access, up to 50 sites, custom events and ecommerce tracking, unlimited email reports and CSV exports, and forever data retention—with privacy-law compliance and no cookie banner required for analytics. If you’d rather not run servers or maintenance yourself, try a 30-day free trial (that link applies a $10 credit on your first invoice). Browse all features or the live demo. Feature Fathom Lite Fathom (hosted) Fully managed ✗ Self-hosted; you run servers and updates ✓ Managed for you; pay per pageviews Cookie-free (no analytics banner) ✗ Uses cookies ✓ Cookie-free tracking Current dashboard (real-time, live visitors, filters, details) ✗ Older Lite UI ✓ Full dashboard — see features API ✗ ✓ API on all plans Custom events, ecommerce, UTMs ✗ ✓ Events, revenue, campaigns EU isolation & custom domains ✗ ✓ EU routing, first-party script domains GA import, email reports, CSV export, shared dashboards ✗ ✓ Unlimited reports & exports Many sites per account ✗ Typical single install ✓ Up to 50 sites (more available) Email support & SLA ✗ Community / as-is ✓ Support on every plan Global CDN, scaling, backups ✗ Your responsibility ✓ Included Active feature development ✗ Bugfixes / maintenance ✓ Ongoing — trial · sign up Installation Production You can install Fathom on your server by following our simple instructions. Development For getting a development version of Fathom up & running, go through the following steps. Ensure you have Go and NPM installed Download the code: git clone https://github.com/usefathom/fathom.git $GOPATH/src/github.com/usefathom/fathom Compile the project into an executable: make build (Optional) Set custom configuration values (Required) Register a user account: ./fathom user add --email=<email> --password=<password> Start the webserver: ./fathom server and then visit http://localhost:8080 to access your analytics dashboard Docker Building Ensure you have Docker installed and run docker build -t fathom .. Run the container with docker run -d -p 8080:8080 fathom. Running To run our pre-built Docker image, run docker run -d -p 8080:8080 usefathom/fathom:latest Tracking snippet To start tracking, create a site in your Fathom dashboard and copy the tracking snippet to the website(s) you want to track. Content Security Policy If you use a Content Security Policy (CSP) to specify security policies for your website, Fathom requires the following CSP directives (replace yourfathom.com with the URL to your Fathom instance): script-src: yourfathom.com; img-src: yourfathom.com; Copyright and license MIT licensed. Fathom and Fathom logo are trademarks of Fathom Analytics.
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What Hacker News says

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> We are fully GDPR compliant and use zero cookies. From the GitHub repo [1]: > At present, Fathom Analytics Lite is not PECR compliant due to the fact that it uses an anonymous cookie. Our PRO version is PECR compliant, and we'll be making changes to this codebase some time in the future to make it compliant. The open source version seems to be lacking behind and might generally be treated without much love, given that their website doesn't even link to it (which is understandable from a business point of view, but doesn't inspire much confidence in its future maintenance). [1]: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/blob/69baac5c4a4d96880a2...
In Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
I gave many of these a visit. fathom - Looks great. I am OK with closed source products (my motivation is self-hosting/privacy) but the direction is not clear to me. Maybe they will have a blog about it at some point - https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/issues/268. Having multiple code bases is going to be super hard. goaccess.io - this analyses web logs google-analytics-proxy - project is dead matomo - this is what i use now and it works great. has a lot of quirks but if you spend some time, you can make it work. ackee, goatcounter - simple but looks like this does not track users/sessions. it's mostly for page hits. countly - looks good if you are enterprise. there is no pricing :( freshlytics (from another thread) - page says it's in beta and not production ready
In Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics

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