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Open source alternatives to Google Analytics

Google Analytics is the hosted website analytics product most sites start with.

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Google Analytics is the hosted analytics product most sites start with. Self-hosting keeps visitor data on a server you control, which suits teams that want to own that record. The five projects here vary a lot in size and scope, from small single-purpose counters to larger suites. All of them use OSI licences, and PostHog is labelled open core, so check which parts you need.

Published by Google. The projects below are sorted by GitHub stars. Star counts and last commit dates are read from the public GitHub API. The line under each name is generated from the category, the licence, and whether the project can be self-hosted. Fetched . 5 of 5 have an OSI-approved SPDX licence, a commit in the last 12 months, and a repository GitHub has not archived.

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  1. 1PostHog

    PostHog/posthog

    Analytics. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MITOpen core
    GitHub stars
    40,287
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

    Also listed as an alternative to Mixpanel, Hotjar.

  2. 2Umami

    umami-software/umami

    Analytics. Licence: MIT. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    MIT
    GitHub stars
    39,381
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  3. 3Plausible

    plausible/analytics

    Analytics. Licence: AGPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    AGPL-3.0
    GitHub stars
    29,409
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

  4. 4Matomo

    matomo-org/matomo

    Analytics. Licence: GPL-3.0. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    GPL-3.0
    GitHub stars
    21,955
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

    Also listed as an alternative to Mixpanel, Hotjar.

  5. 5Goatcounter

    arp242/goatcounter

    Analytics. Licence: EUPL-1.2. Self-hosted: yes.

    Licence
    EUPL-1.2
    GitHub stars
    6,059
    Last commit

    Counts as open source: OSI-approved licence, commit within 12 months, and the repository is not archived.

    Repository on GitHubProject site

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