@farooqkz @andypiper I also use #GoatCounter and it does more than enough for what I want (basic page view stats)

@farooqkz @andypiper another vote for #goatcounter

@andypiper

For simple statistics I use #GoatCounter. It's simple and #GPDR compatible by default. I also have experience with #Matomo. It's not GPDR compatible by default. You have to change the settings to anonymize data collections.

Matomo is far more advanced than GoatCounter. If you want to extensively see what happens on your website, Matomo is the way to go. Like you can track how many users stay 5 minutes in your website. And also realize which posts they like more, see bounce rate and so on.

Both GoatCounter and Matomo are blocked by anti tracking protections of Firefox.

Edit: If you are not sure which one is the right option for you, you can try hosted GoatCounter and see if you need more data from your visitors.

Started using #goatcounter and #formsparkio for #analytics and #forms on my #staticsite #hugo. Implemented #CloudflareTurnstile too for the form. Quite happy with the setup! Will try to get some comments working too maybe with #utterances, #commentario or #giscus.

So far so good. Created a new #Debian server a few days ago. Got the basic config done. So far I've moved my #11ty blog and #Forgejo instance over. I still need to move #Nextcloud, #Miniflux, and #GoatCounter before I can blow away the old #Ubuntu server.

I was considering going with a #FreeBSD server but I need to spend more time with FreeBSD before I'm comfortable with it.

Thought about #Arch too, but decided to keep it simple without overwriting the deployed OS.

#SelfHosting

Integrated #GoatCounter with my website at https://far.chickenkiller.com. When loading the script from some other origin, my adblocker blocks it. Now I'm embedding the entire script into page to see what will happen.

#FOSS #PersonalWebsite #Hugo #web #analytics

Edit: Just realized @nlnet has funded the project GoatCounter!

I added #GoatCounter to my #astro powered website following their documentation, but now I'm getting this console error:

Content-Security-Policy: The page’s settings blocked a script (script-src-elem) at https://stevefrenzel.dev/_astro/hoisted.GszST510.js from being executed because it violates the following directive: “script-src https://gc.zgo.at”

Tracking is working though but I'm no pro when it comes to this, so any help appreciated! 🙏

#frontend #WebDev #JavaScript #security

new blog post: "GoatCounter, Rogue Scholar and more new things" https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2024/07/21/rogue-scholar-and-more.html

"About a year ago I started migrating my blogger.com blog to a git-version-controlled, Markdown-based blogging platform. I have to say, it has been a happy year. It actually is awesome to port old blog posts (follow that here) and to see what I have been working on some 17, 18 years ago. [...]"

@rogue_scholar #goatcounter

Cool. Got #GoatCounter installed and operational. Now I should be able to dump Google Analytics for Elles business site. And I think I'll use it for my blog site too. Mostly just curious to see if it actually gets hit by many bots or not. Still haven't gotten the nginx user agent blocks to work correctly yet.

@kravemir I didn't know about this tool. I'll have a look at #GoatCounter

@olivian regarding a better alternative to Google Analytics.

I know of #GoatCounter. It is very much better for #privacy of users.

@filmaj

Since #GoogleAnalytics became illegal in the #EU some great alternatives have come to the forefront. My personal favorite is the #FOSS solution called #Goatcounter. Sometimes it is worth not sitting in the lap of the large companies. :-)

https://goatcounter.com/

#GoatCounter looks like a really promising google #analytics alternative
it's more than enough for my personal uses, at least - just installed it on my neocities site!

https://goatcounter.com/

seeing where all the cool visitors are from gives me a lil dopamine boost~ i also wanna eventually publish some resources and artwork, so having some measurable reassurance that people are seeing that would be nice tbf.

Alternative a Google Analytics

Anche chi possiede un sito web può fare la sua parte togliendo potere a Google: andiamo alla scoperta di alternative a Google Analytics!

LINK --> https://www.lealternative.net/2020/04/22/alternative-a-google-analytics/

#Google #analytics #goatcounter #google #googleanalytics #jetpack #koko #matomo #siti #statistiche #stats #web #webmaster #wordpress

Fellow #IndieWeb community and anyone that just basically wants an old fashioned page hit counter on their site without relying on #GA4.

Trying out #GoatCounter this evening and it does what I want. It’s #GDPR compliant, too. Nothing fancy, but I don’t need anything fancy. It’s free to use, if you don’t go too crazy with it. And you can alway self host.

https://www.goatcounter.com/

We are slowly getting there. #OpenSource made (mostly) in EU, privacy respecting, GDPR compliant. #goatcounter #crowdsec #nextcloud #mastodon and more. Cc @EU_Commission

I'm looking for a simple #analytics system to implement in my personal websites.

I aim for something:

- Non privacy invasive
- Open Source
- Easy to implement
- Free (as in gratis) or rather unexpensive

ATM my best candidate is #goatCounter (https://www.goatcounter.com/). Any experiences with it?

Any other recommendations?

#Servicetoot Um zu sehen ob es sich lohnt, die Website https://coronamuc.de weiter zu betreiben haben wir mit #Goatcounter eine Analytics Lösung aktiviert. Sie erfasst KEINE personenbezogenen Daten und ist nach DSGVO Kriterien entwickelt.

@aral Please find me a technology big tech is involved with that we are not funding actual alternatives to. Any form of proprietary lock-in is something we target to remove, anything that invades privacy needs to be stopped/mitigated (think #NoScript, #JShelter, #Offen.dev, #Goatcounter, #TrackingTheTrackers, #Searx, #Qubes, #SpectrumOS, etc). That is our contribution. Obviously, the trillion dollar surveillance economy needs to be curbed by harsh regulation, but this is not within our remit...