Open-Source Web Analytics

6 Web Analytics tools that qualify — compared on sourced, continuously re-verified facts.

Plausible Analytics

Open-source, privacy-first web analytics — a lightweight, cookieless Google Analytics alternative.

Open Source: Community Edition (CE) is AGPLv3; cloud product is built on same open-source codebase

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Umami

Open-source, privacy-focused web analytics available self-hosted or as a managed cloud service.

Open Source: Umami is fully open source under the MIT license with source on GitHub (37k+ stars).

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Matomo

Open-source, privacy-first web analytics platform available self-hosted or in the cloud.

Open Source: Matomo On-Premise is open source under GPL-3.0. The Cloud version is built on the same open-source core.

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Pirsch Analytics

Server-side, cookieless web analytics hosted in Germany, built for GDPR compliance.

Open Source: Core analytics library is open source (AGPLv3) on GitHub.

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PostHog

All-in-one open-source platform for product analytics, web analytics, session replay, and feature flags.

Open Source: PostHog is open source under MIT license (with a proprietary EE directory). A fully FOSS mirror (posthog-foss) is also published.

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GoatCounter

Open-source, privacy-friendly web analytics that tracks no personal data.

Open Source: GoatCounter is open source under EUPL-1.2, available at github.com/arp242/goatcounter.

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