Google Analytics is the default web traffic tracker, feeding visitor behaviour into Google's ad ecosystem. Site owners switch to self-hosted analytics to drop cookie banners, comply with GDPR more easily, avoid data sampling, and stop sending their audience data to an advertising company.
13 open-source alternatives to Google Analytics you can host yourself, ranked by GitHub stars and updated daily.
| # | App | Category | Stars | Language | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
PostHog/posthog
|
Web Analytics | 40,748 | Python | today |
| 2 |
umami-software/umami
|
Web Analytics | 40,076 | TypeScript | today |
| 3 |
plausible/analytics
|
Web Analytics | 29,827 | Elixir | today |
| 4 |
matomo-org/matomo
|
Web Analytics | 22,025 | PHP | today |
| 5 |
allinurl/goaccess
|
Web Analytics | 21,130 | C | 1d |
| 6 |
usefathom/fathom
|
Web Analytics | 8,035 | Go | 7mo |
| 7 |
arp242/goatcounter
|
Web Analytics | 6,155 | Go | 1mo |
| 8 |
milesmcc/shynet
|
Web Analytics | 3,158 | Python | 8mo |
| 9 |
msgbyte/tianji
|
Web Analytics Monitoring & Alerting |
3,119 | TypeScript | 1d |
| 10 |
Open-Web-Analytics/Open-Web-Analytics
|
Web Analytics | 2,696 | PHP | today |
| 11 |
Swetrix/swetrix
|
Web Analytics | 1,222 | TypeScript | 6d |
| 12 |
offen/offen
|
Web Analytics | 983 | JavaScript | 8mo |
| 13 |
th0th/poeticmetric
|
Media Management & Downloaders | 268 | TypeScript | 8mo |