Hi guys, I’ve been working on a self-hostable web analytics platform since the start of this year after being frustrated with Google Analytics and Plausible.

I’ve packed a bunch of cool web analytics features into Rybbit, but I’ve tried very hard to keep the interface simple to use,

https://github.com/rybbit-io/rybbit

Check it out!

  • osprior@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 minute ago

    Question is the self-hosted version less featured than the paid hosted version?

    This looks amazing btw.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?

    I haven’t tried Plausible, but it seemed popular

    • Goldflag@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      53 minutes ago

      it didn’t have enough features, especially since the community version is heavily nerfed (it’s missing even funnels)

  • Lung@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    Wow holy crap, great work - the world badly needs this. Im assuming the mechanism is the same, you inject a js script into your site. I’m also very interested in pure server side solutions for analytics, but they can’t hit all the features you did in a generic way afaik

    • Goldflag@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      Yea, we use a client-side script like almost everyone else. The major difference is that we don’t use cookies so you can avoid a lot of the cookie banner/GDPR nonsense.

      Rybbit definitely isn’t the first open source cookieless web analytics platform (Plausible and Umami are the two other big ones), but it’s probably the most “all-in-one” of all these alternatives.

    • Goldflag@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      1 hour ago

      Posthog makes it almost impossible to actually self-host since they try to push you onto the cloud as much as possible. They say that the self-hosted version only works well up until 100k events … which is insane since their cloud free tier is 1 million events. It’s actually the reason why I built Rybbit. I tried to self-host posthog on my server but it ran it up to 100% CPU on 8 cores and didn’t even work.

      Ok posthog rant done.

      The other main difference is that Posthog has like 10+ different products all in one. Their web analytics is good, but it’s just kind of bland (imo) because it’s not their main focus.

  • solrize@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 hours ago

    Aren’t there already tons of these already? Piwik has been around for a quite a while, plus there are others mentioned in the comments.