RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement

The market for Google Analytics alternatives is crowded. There&#x27;s Plausible, Ahrefs web analytics, onedollarstats.com, PostHog, Matomo, Unami, Grafana, Microsoft Clarity (free at any scale), and so many others. Despite minor differences these products all compete for the same users (e.g. if someone is a PostHog customer they probably won&#x27;t be using Ahref web analytics) yet most of these companies offer generous free tiers while rybbit only a free trial.<p>How do products like rybbit.io stay competitive without a similar free tier or major differentiation? Is rybbit generating revenue for its hosted plan?

Umami works for me. I just want that dopamine kick that someone clicked on my page so I dont feel lonely on the internet.

For me, the best Google analytics replacement has been nothing. Just don’t do analytics at all. Your web site will still work without it. In fact, it will work better!

There were a gajillion of these things before Google Analytics. Probably the best options were those that relied on log analysis rather than having a JavaScript bug on every page.

The documentation states that rybbit does not use cookies and is compliant with the GDPR. The first part is true but, looking at the code (very nice to have it available), the tracking is done by IP address, trading one piece of tracking data for another.<p>I realize that this is probably the only way it could work but it is not clear to me that tracking by IP address (even over a single session and shredding the data once a day) is any better from a GDPR standpoint.

If people insist on tracking users with analytics, the least folks can do is use something other than google to do it.

I keep recommending it, but you can check out <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;european-alternatives.eu&#x2F;category&#x2F;web-analytics-services" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;european-alternatives.eu&#x2F;category&#x2F;web-analytics-serv...</a> for a more complete list of EU based web analytic services.<p>I&#x27;m one of the co-founders of Pirsch, and a bit worried because the space is getting really crowded :D

If you don&#x27;t want to roll your own and don&#x27;t care if its open source, I&#x27;ve used clicky.com for years. Simple, and shows everything I need. As others have said, it&#x27;s a crowded market. Still cool though that people are launching these projects.

Well, obvious question: How does it compare to Plausible and all the other open source analytics.

There are at least 60 alternatives : <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umami.is&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-mega-list-of-google-analytics-alternatives" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;umami.is&#x2F;blog&#x2F;a-mega-list-of-google-analytics-altern...</a>

Is GeoLite2 reliable?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rybbit-io&#x2F;rybbit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;server&#x2F;GeoLite2-City.mmdb">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;rybbit-io&#x2F;rybbit&#x2F;blob&#x2F;master&#x2F;server&#x2F;GeoLi...</a>

Why not Matomo?

Hey I built this! I was meaning to launch Rybbit on show HN tomorrow morning but I guess you beat me to it haha.

Because I like minimalist tools, onedollarstats.com looks interesting to me. I can’t find much info about their privacy posture (which prevents me from using Google Analytics). I use my own counter, but it’s got very limited features.

Is there any server side only analytics software that is open source and decent? I really don’t want to add any more JavaScript to my pages that I don’t need.

This seems, very similar to Umami. Is this a fork from them? TypeScript &#x2F; Next.JS and similar design?

Probably one of the coolest logos I&#x27;ve seen so far. How did you come up with it?

Can the creator &#x2F;user&#x2F;bill_yang explain this contradiction in the readme? It claims to support tracking unique users, but then immediately afterwards claims not to track users. Do you mean that you don&#x27;t do any user tracking <i>by default</i>?<p>&gt; Key Features<p>&gt; - All key web analytics metrics including sessions, <i>unique users</i>, pageviews, bounce rate, session duration<p>&gt; - No cookies or <i>user tracking</i> - GDPR &amp; CCPA compliant

so many takes here tbh, i always end up just picking the simplest tool and hoping for the best - you think real privacy or just ease of use is what ends up mattering more long-term?

very nice demo. I saw that you are using threejs but when i checked network logs its not downloading it which is great. Are you doing SSR?

I&#x27;m hosting my blog on cloudflare pages, it&#x27;s analytics show 80 or so uniques every day consistently even though I barely write there. Installed Umami - 0 visitors. None. Internet is just LLM crawlers hungry for content now?

Is there anything that can work with the request logs instead of the usual transparent pixels and&#x2F;or script inclusions?

A couple of days ago I was researching website analytics and GDPR&#x2F;cookie law, and it seems clear that you need user consent even if IP addresses are only processed or temporarily stored before being discarded.<p>Arguing otherwise is like claiming it’s legal to steal from a store as long as you return the goods the next day - it’s legal fantasy.<p>I don’t think the EU is eager to go after these “ethical” analytics companies or their users, since they have bigger fish to fry. But if you think you’re legally in the clear using these solutions without user consent, you’re fooling yourself.

Interesting!