Cheap, simple, privacy friendly analytics?
As an indie hacker, I'd like to have some knowledge about my visitors, mainly where they come from. Is there a cheap solution to this that's also privacy friendly?
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As an indie hacker, I'd like to have some knowledge about my visitors, mainly where they come from. Is there a cheap solution to this that's also privacy friendly?
Check out Zenovay, free tier available, privacy-first, no cookies. It's more than just pageviews though: you get AI insights, heatmaps, session replay, and error logs all in one tool. I built it because I wanted something that was as simple as Plausible but with the depth of GA4 + Hotjar combined. Would love your feedback if you try it.
Give onEco +Analytics a try. Public launch soon. Happy to provide you with an invite code and account for free before that.
"Matomo"
Self-hosted. Which in comparison with google better because google analytics uses American servers so that European countries consider it like illegal
Not bad. Do you know if it's easy to set up?
Very easy. We chose this service for our website because GA is illegal (according GDPR) in a few EU countries and we recently found the decision so that it's actual topic for me
I've heard great things about Plausible among my marketing friends so it's probably a great tool! I've tried and adopted matomo which gives the UX I miss from the old days of GA and is privacy-friendly!
Everyone is suggesting plausible but it is not cheap. Not for an indie developer. I can run my whole app for less than plausible's monthly fee 😅
You can self-host Plausible for free (assuming you have a domain name) as I do :) Mentioned that in my post: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/building-secutils-dev-running-micro-saas-for-less-than-1-a-month-91c01d147f
That's why I suggested matomo ;) If you can set it up on your own premises, it's free https://matomo.org/pricing/
Try Wide Angle Analytics. It is my product, we launched back in 2021 :)
It is not free, but that to smart infrastructure and avoiding expensive cloud providers, we managed to create an attractive Founder plan.
Small script, GDPR compliance, cookieless (or with cookies - you decide).
This sounds interesting, however I can't load the page (I'm using a VPN with DNS content blocking for ads and tracking).
Can you share the VPN provider? I would like to reach out to them and get removed from the block list.
We are fully hosted in the EU, compliant, with proper audits and security disclosures. We do not share, nor sell, data.
By default, we do not store Personal Data.
We are as ethical web analytics provider as it gets.
Maybe you should use a completely separate domain for analytics/tracking? 🤔
The VPN I use is mullvad.net
We use subdomains for tracking. Reported this to support and raised on Twitter.
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https://plausible.io/ is my go-to
It's not cheap tho...
How much is cheap in this context?
3-5 usd per month.
I don't expect all the bells and whistles that plausible and other analytics services offer, all I'm looking for is a truly simple tool (mainly: number of visitors and where they came from).
I'm honestly thinking about building one myself 😅
You may have found a brand new low-cost project to help indie hackers 😉
Well, someone already made it, I just found it by accident on twitter 😅
Could you post a link to it? :)
It's overtracking.com
(This is not an endorsement, I simply like that they offer a free version. I have no idea if it's good or not!)
Double down on tomoviktor wrote. I use Plausible analytics its 9$/month and enough.
Good thing is that you don't have a cookie banner for visitors. So always a small plus.
In the uk it's £9, which is almost $12. That's not cheap...
Well, you can't have it all both way. Either resell the data of your visitors to google = free
Or pay for RGPD friendly and no cookie.
You can self-host if you already can have a server, but I don't see why the extra work..
I don't think saving and storing some rows (10k max!) in a database should cost 9 usd, especially when you know that clickhouse is charging around 40 usd for a terrabyte of data...
I'm using https://usefathom.com. Not super cheap, but cheaper than Plausible analytics. Happy so far and the founders are very accommodating when you go over your limit a bit.
It's not cheaper
Looks like it's cheaper to me unless you have less than 100k pageviews:
PageViews - Plausible - Fathom
<100k - $9 - $14
100k - $19 - $14
200k - $29 - $24
500k - $49 - $44
I see!
For a tiny project that has far less pageviews, paying this much is not feasible.
(Also I find it interesting how plausible charges 9 GBP in the UK, which is a ~26% increase compared to the US price 👎)
You can also self-host the free fathom lite https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
A great alternative is Plausible, the guy who made it is an Indie Hacker too. Recently I noticed that some hosting platforms have built in analytics (for example: Netlify or Vercel, maybe your hosting has one too?
Currently the only analytics I have is cloudflare but it's exteremely basic. To get more features, I need a paid plan which is $20/month...
Is there no cheap solution to this? 😩
try https://umami.is/ or https://usermaven.com/