GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data

Re:GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of ... by arp242 on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:28AM (#22045619)

GoatCounter doesn't do a lot of these things ... yet, but it's definitely planned.

I'm a little bit hesitant to look too much at GA, since I don't to just make an "open source GA". In a lot of jobs I worked at we were essentially just "making a shit copy of a shit product", to put it crudely. I really want to avoid doing that.

So the way may be quite different, but the goal of providing meaningful business insights is definitely there.

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Re:GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of ... by kareemm on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:34AM (#22045678)

I wouldn't look at how GA implements things. But I'd look at what people are using GA to learn.

The four scenarios I listed above are important to understand when running the marketing side of a B2B SaaS company.

I don't care about the implementation details (other than they're straightforward). But I need to understand that info. And today there's no obvious choice other than GA. This surprises me.

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Re:GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of ... by Carpetsmoker on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @10:48AM (#22045849)

Matomo is probably the only serious contender at the moment, as far as I know.

I agree that info is important, I just meant that the UI might turn out quite different from GA.

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Re:GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of ... by monkin on Tuesday January 14, 2020 @11:14AM (#22046156)

If you pay for additional plugins (or cloud version) that aren't open source, you may have this. The basic version is like the rest and ugly as hell.

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