Show HN: I spent 8 months building a self-hosted web analytics app

Hi everyone,<p>I spent the last 8 months working on a web analytics app that is completely self-hosted. First it was just as a small side project - but then I more and more liked the idea and added feature after feature.<p>I wanted to have a web analytics tool that I could easily set up on a new project, that is easy to use, provides an appealing user-experience and combines all the features of &quot;classic&quot; analytics tools (e.g. Google Analytics) with functionalities like Heatmaps (so I only have to use one tool). Furthermore, I wanted to have full control over all my data.<p>I was so pleased with how everything came out that I decided to give it a try and make it a product (321 Analytics).<p>So the first version of 321 Analytics is finally ready and I wanted to share it with you.<p>I would be very happy to hear your thoughts and appreciate any feedback or suggestions for improvement.

When I see something like this, I immediately think: what&#x27;s the difference with Piwik &#x2F; Matomo ? <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matomo.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;matomo.org&#x2F;</a>

Since we must buy this program, maybe there could be larger screenshots and more detail about the features. Perhaps even a demo instance everyone could access (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;321analytics.com&#x2F;analytics" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;321analytics.com&#x2F;analytics</a> doesn&#x27;t show any data).<p>Also, I&#x27;m intrigued about the way the program must be deployed. &quot;Upload the app files on my hosting&quot; doesn&#x27;t mean much, except if I&#x27;m a PHP user who has one of those all-PHP hosting accounts. What about the database?

Feedback:<p>Browser history is a must or at least some url paths to link to. Otherwise I have to keep going back to the metric menu for every action.<p>Each pages displays a whole lot of information. It&#x27;s broken down nicely, but sometimes less information is more. Being able to focus on one type of graph&#x2F;data rather then several blocks is easier.<p>The &quot;plus&quot; icon on some graphs expends and collapses (UI issue)<p>The UI colors seem really light. Might want to check for color contrast because I think this would fail accessibility.

Looks interesting. I’ve been thinking about self hosting analytics so this is timely.<p>I didn’t see any sort of feature comparisons available vs something like Matomo&#x2F;piwik or hosted Google analytics.<p>One thing that has kept me from self hosting and just using Google analytics is that I feel like Google probably does a good job at filtering out bots and spam where I’d be more unsure with a less mature option. Would be interested to hear more if you have a moment, though perhaps I could run both for a month and just compare the data.

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