GoatCounter

Lightweight web analytics.

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Console’s review

· Reviewed by David Mytton

What we like

Very lightweight stats for your website: visitors, top pages, referrers, etc. Includes automatic bot detection and campaign stats. Tracking JS is very small (3.5 kB) and has the option to use a pixel, trigger from server middleware or import raw logs. Doesn’t track users with IDs. Open source and can be self hosted (written in Go and uses either SQLite or Postgres)

Tradeoffs

It is very lightweight, so if you’re used to Google Analytics you may be disappointed - but do you really need all that data? No dark mode.

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