I moved from GA to Plausible a while back. Very nice product and easy to set up. Its a paid product but I would rather keep my user's data private.<p>This product seems interesting but its free so I fail to see how you will keep maintaining it in the future if you don't get paid.<p>I understand that running it will cost you a few dollars a month if that at the beginning but eventually, between the time spent on maintenance and the ongoing costs, you are going to have to start charging your customers.
I find it funny how the stats get skewed by developers or people coming from HN (83% from HN at the time of viewing).<p>Windows, the most used OS in the world is listed under "Other" when looking at the Platforms pie chart. Pretty funny that in the HN community Linux is more commonly used than Windows, at least from the people that clicked on the link.
Goatcounter is another great open source alternative <a href="https://www.goatcounter.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.goatcounter.com</a>
The product looks awesome!<p>I do have a question... If Counter is free, what is the revenue model? How will you sustain the platform? Although it's open source, it seems to be a SaaS platform that runs on your servers.
I was not expecting it to work flawlessly with my open source LMS CourseLit which I am currently building as CourseLit still has rough edges. But it did!<p>I was able to collect the analytics from my website and the setup was easier than that of Google Analytics. Great work.
From GitHub:<p>"We only track the first page the user views, this is again more privacy friendly and additionally also results in substantial less HTTP requests the server has to handle. As a result of this strategy, Counter is able to show top landing pages but not top pages"<p>May not be big for some people, but that seems to be a very big consideration folks should be aware of.
Do we have to worry that their Twitter account is currently suspended - "Twitter suspends accounts which violate the Twitter Rules"?<p><a href="https://twitter.com/DevCounter" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/DevCounter</a>
A question for this thread... Does not having Google Analytics on your site affect your google search site ranking in any way?<p>I have Google Analytics on my sites and I'm concerned about losing vistors if I swap to some other trackers.
I use <a href="https://github.com/ankane/ahoy" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ankane/ahoy</a> and quite happy with it
Oh by the way, we are looking for a Co-Founder that we are convinced is able to grow counter. We really don't care how, chould be content marketing. We are here for the long term. Write a couple of sentences to hey@counter.dev
Can someone versed in open source licenses chime in in what it means to use this service since it is licensed under the AGPL? I'm not an expert but as I understand it AGPL can require your own code to come under AGPL as well?
> Web Analytics made simple and therefore privacy friendly<p>One small remark: not storing personal data doesn't mean it's privacy friendly. Yes, it can be private for the user, but not for the business owner. If we still centralize data, then potentially a single entity gets information about traffic and browsing habits of user cohorts, which can then indeed be used for "evil", such as creating a competitor of that business by using the collected data or to guide those users towards a different website/direction.
Was looking for something like this the other day. Looks perfect! trying it out right now.<p>Little confused how it works out the page though. Looking at the given snippet it doesn't seem to include anything and the pathname I am hitting is showing up on the dashboard as "/". Maybe missing sending "window.location.pathname"? And a super tiny thing but "navigator.sendBeacon" maybe better over "fetch". Other that super work!
The script from Counter is pretty special compare to others. It's a single fetch() call.<p>And for some reasons, I can't see the request being logged to the Network tab in Chrome. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? My site: <a href="https://devutils.app/" rel="nofollow">https://devutils.app/</a>
What if someone programmatically hit:<p><pre><code> https://simple-web-analytics.com/track?referrer=spam.com&screen=0x0&user=counter&utcoffset=1
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Your product looks great, by the way!
I've been using Simple Analytics[1] for a while now and am loving it. Glad there is no trackers on the site.<p>[1] - <a href="https://simpleanalytics.com/" rel="nofollow">https://simpleanalytics.com/</a>
Looks nice but does the "pay what you want" model actually work?<p>I just can see a lot of people not paying at all because people usually don't care enough.