Any alternatives to Google Analytics?

Here's a list of ethical analytics I managed to compile over the last year or so.
I/we use Plausible Analytics and am happy to recommend it.

GoAccess
https://goaccess.io/

Splitbee
https://splitbee.io/pricing

Statcounter
https://statcounter.com/

Versoly
https://versoly.com/features/analytics

Gauges
https://get.gaug.es/

Simple Analytics
https://simpleanalytics.com/#signup

Woopra
https://www.woopra.com/

GoSquared
https://www.gosquared.com/

Hitsteps
https://www.hitsteps.com/

Ackee
https://ackee.electerious.com/

Amplitude
https://amplitude.com/

Pendo.io
https://www.pendo.io/pricing/

FullStory
https://www.fullstory.com/

Fathom
https://usefathom.com/

Simple Analytics
https://simpleanalytics.com/

Plausible Analytics
https://plausible.io/

AT Internet's Analytics Suite 2
https://www.atinternet.com/en/

Chiffre.io
https://chiffre.io/

I switch from GA to https://usefathom.com about 2 months ago and really love it!

Bonus-points @JackEllis24 is an IH and doing great work!

My 💰 link for $10: https://usefathom.com/ref/1V7B8M

For a self hosted opensource alternative I suggest you take a look at Matomo (old Piwik).
It’s fast, real-time, has a nice API and it’s free.

True Indie Hackers hand roll their own bowl of spaghetti analytics system out of CSV files and javascript snippets.

I compiled a list of privacy-oriented alternatives to GA as I had the same need.

I included the info of it being open source + what gets you the cheapest plan.

Btw I used Fathom (good option), but switched to Plausible (I saved a lot!).

I've been using PostHog (https://posthog.com), open-source, self-hosted and they have auto-capture of events.

P.S with self-hosted you can get away with an annoying cookie notice (but you do need a cookie policy)

I would highly highly recommend Fathom! They were the first to the scene for ethical analytics, very lightweight for the page load, and allows you to showcase your stats directly to your visitors as part of a more "Open" start-up! https://usefathom.com/ref/ZVU0EF (Here is my link, it is affiliate). I 100% stand behind their product! Other good mention would be Plausible or SimpleAnalytics! Cheers and stop giving Google your data! #nomorewalledgardens

https://www.usertrack.net if you need more than basic visitor stats.

Countly
https://count.ly/

I like to connect everything to Google Data Studios. Much easier to use than GA.

Your page looks nice Matias! Did you build it from scratch or used some pagebuilder?

You can try this one https://metrica.yandex.com/about
my best feature is web-visor , you can see every user doing on your web site

What about Momently?

For me, I cannot afford any more monthly fees. What do you guys suggest for faster analytics integration that's free or super affordable?

I haven't used it personally yet but I am looking into using mixpanel.com and segment.io as other people I know have used them successfully and happily

I'm working on one more: https://beampipe.io .

I'm offering a free tier at the moment so would be delighted if anyone wants to try it out and give me some feedback.

Check out some of your fellow Indie Hackers. I remember:
https://www.indiehackers.com/product/plausible-insights

And then you can browse the product category as well:
https://www.indiehackers.com/products?category=analytics

I've been using Nibspace (https://nibspace.com/) - lightweight, privacy-friendly website analytics

@matiastucci Any reason why you aren't interesting in GA this time?

https://matomo.org/ aka Piwik seems to be interesting, because of their approach - they give us 100% ownership of collected data. Also it isn't running on client side like Google Analytics (which can be easily blocked with uBlock or stuff like that), but on server side.

I think it's dedicated for mature businesses, even if their pricing is fine for small projects.

I recently came across of this one on HN: https://umami.is
I still have the tab open from a few days ago. It's open source and it looks a lot friendlier than GA does. However, because it's brand new, you can't be for sure it will still be supported in 10 years.

Oh boy ur inviting a lot of advertising with this post. Ok so video annotation, responsiveness and load time is always going to be important, something light weight and doesn't make a ton of hidden API calls like GAnalytics will probably be better.

Event tracking is probably more important to you than an aggregate tracker like GAnalytics, b/c ur making an interactive system, not a blog or marketing software. Something like a mixpanel, but that's probably too expensive if you don't have a huge budget.

Honestly, the cheapest and most lightweight solution would be to implement your own event tracking.

So get a spreadsheet out and log your top 5-10 events "writing notes", "playing video", "video stopped", "note duration", etc. cache these events and then batch update them. Then have a few queries on your backend that you can look at for analysis and put that in a second row with some description in a 3rd row. You can also do the basic GAnalytics stuff like "page views" and etc.

This way you spend no money, can code a little bit more (yayy!!) and you're forced to think more about the user flow through implementing your own event tracking. Also page load time and responsiveness won't suffer b/c there won't be another service running background API calls and A/B tests. The other thing is that 44% of user data in GAnalytics is lost due to ad-blocking, so it's safe to assume that you're looking at corrupt data through that service.

Interesting, why not GA? What are you looking for in your next analytics platform?

Another vote for https://plausible.io/! I'm a happy user for several months now and couldn't be happier. The product is really solid and they keep adding new features all the time. I also like the privacy first approach of the founders.

I'm sure IHs will share the best analytics alternatives.

At https://versoly.com/ we have analytics included in our website builder that comes with templates and a blogging CMS.