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Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by jotm on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:01AM (#21721396)
Speaking of self hosted analytics, I used to use Piwik and it was great. It's called Matomo now https://matomo.org/
Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by Lammy on Friday December 06, 2019 @02:12PM (#21725001)
This project seems to use Matomo's referer blacklist, so there is hopefully some cross-pollination between the similar projects: https://github.com/ibericode/koko-analytics/commit/d53077392...

(Both are GPLv3, so there's no licensing issue or anything; Just caught my eye.)

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by Findus23 on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:32AM (#21722614)
And speaking of WordPress analytics: There is now a new official WordPress plugin that contains a whole Matomo instance, so you don't need to set it up seperatly.

https://matomo.org/blog/2019/10/matomo-analytics-for-wordpre...

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by mxuribe on Friday December 06, 2019 @08:58AM (#21721764)
> ... I used to use...

I recently actually started using matomo (away from google analytics)...So I'm curious why you seemed to no longer use it?? Is there something that i should be wary about now using matomo?

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by Lerain on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:05AM (#21722353)
I am a great fan (as much as one can be a fan of an analytics tool) and advocate for matomo. They even have server log analytics with no client-side tracking whatsoever.

We're using it for a big variety of clients small to big and sure, it's less capable than Google Analytics, but then again – most of our clients are just interested in simple visitor statistics to validate certain assumptions, not whether or not James Doe's engagement with our site has been 4.32% better after his second Flat White at Starbucks.

When ever there's a viable alternative to a Google product – go for it. Matomo is 100% viable and I feel much better tracking (anonymous!) user-behavior this way.

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by jotm on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:59AM (#21722283)
Oh, no, I just have no use for it now :)

I expect Matomo to be even better, after all this time.

Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by mxuribe on Friday December 06, 2019 @10:13AM (#21722435)
Ah ok, understood; whew. Thanks for the clarification!
Re:Show HN: Self-hosted, privacy-friendly and open-source an... by basilgohar on Friday December 06, 2019 @09:18AM (#21721906)
I have not found any issue with the software since the name change.