Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to A lightweight open-source web analytics for webdevs
I wanted to share something I've been working on recently: Statum, a handy web analytics tool. https://github.com/extractumio/statum The journey began when I found myself frequently needing simple web analytics for my projects. I tried Google Analytics, especially GA4, and realized it was quite complex and, at times, not very accurate, especially when I wanted to view stats for the current day or recent hours. Then I tested a few fancy startup solution but ended up with way too expensive plans the expect me to subscribe (I'm not that rich to pay $99/month for every…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A lightweight open-source web analytics for webdevs launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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OpenStatus▲434Hey HN! We’re Max and Thibault building OpenStatus.dev an OpenSource synthetic monitoring platform with incident managements 1 min demo: https://twitter.com/mxkaske/status/1685666982786404352 We have just reached 2000 stars on GitHub https://github.com/openstatusHQ/openstatus We are really excited to hear your feedback/questions and connect further: our emails are [email protected] and [email protected]. Thank you!
2025 · openstatus.dev · its alternatives →
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Build your own Google Analytics alternative
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I'm excited to finally launch Outstatic, an open source static website CMS that doesn't require a complicated setup or signing up to a third-party service! You can access the documentation here: Outstatic Documentation. I invite you to start by deploying our example blog to Vercel and giving it a try. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised at how easy and fun it is to use Outstatic. Please, let me know what you think. This is the first public version of the project and all feedback is welcome. If you dig the project feel free to leave a star on Github. I appreciate your support!
2022 · outstatic.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · segmentio.github.com · its alternatives →
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66Analytics▲260Self-hosted analytics with session replays, heatmaps & more.
2020 · 66analytics.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, As an indie hacker, the new Google Analytics (GA4) coming motivated me to look for a straightforward alternative that would also be affordable. I had a few basic product requirements and didn’t want to spend too much to replace a free product. There are a lot of great Google Analytics alternatives out there, but the pricing didn’t seem right. As someone who likes to just build things, many of which aren’t businesses yet, it didn’t make sense to pay for options like Plausible and Fathom out of the gate. So I joined with a friend to build Beam Analytics. Beam gives you all the standard…
2023 · beamanalytics.io · its alternatives →
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TLDR: I made a public only web analytics without signup. Stores views and visitors for 10 days before deleting data. Exactly 25 days ago today I posted here, proud of my new web analytics. The response was mixed and my post even got flagged (understandable). It was my first real launch and I actually made a sale just a day later of 49$(!). Back then my project was pay once, keep forever. Since then I have sadly went over to the dark side (subscription based). Anyways, I never went back to look at the post after the first two hours, turns out I got a lot of answers. Most answers was something…
2024 · indielytics.link · its alternatives →
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See where users click across your website, 100% free
Nov 2025 · crazyegg.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! This is a little site I put together while learning the Elm language as part of a hackathon at my work, I thought you might enjoy it. Be sure to click the `(source)` buttons next to the graphs: you can edit them interactively & write your own queries against the entire data set. The syntax isn't well documented yet, but you can probably get the general idea pretty quickly based on the examples there. If you like it, have questions, etc. let me know! If folks think this is cool, maybe I can get it turned into a legit project. :)
2022 · codestat.dev · its alternatives →
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Senior full stack software engineer with 8+ years shipping production systems in React, Node.js, Python, and Rails. Previously a Product Engineer at Ghost. Based in South Korea.
2021 · ronaldlangeveld.com · its alternatives →
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A classic book for web analytics geeks
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Powerful web analytics delivering information in real-time
2015 · its alternatives →
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New framework that will change how you think about analytics
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I wanted to see if I could build something like DataFa.st myself, so I made MochiAnalytics. I'm pretty happy with how it's turning out. It’s got all the bells and whistles a small team or solo founder would need to track campaigns and to see which channel is driving revenue. It’s a cheaper analytics tool for side projects, indie hackers, and small apps. I honestly wish I could make it free, but it still needs servers, a database, and a backend to keep event ingestion running 24/7, so there are real costs behind it. I’m still working on it and will keep adding more features…
Jul 2026 · mochianalytics.com · its alternatives →
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I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.
2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · webplio.com · its alternatives →
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I've built a little prototype a long while back, to help me keep track of visitors on my website. I didn't like google analytics for obvious privacy reasons, and I didn't like the existing self-hosted options because of how complicated they are. I always wanted a simple, basic tool, similar to plausible, but even simpler. So a few weeks ago I rebuilt my prototype into a reusable tool. And I made it open source. I built a website, a documentation, and I'd be excited for someone else to try it too. Who knows, maybe if enough people like the idea, I might even make it into a SaaS to save…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've seen plenty of threads on HN about various alternatives to GA, but you can't try them all. So I tried 15 of the most popular, including: Matomo Cloud, Piwik Pro, Clicky, Cloudflare Web Analytics, Statcounter, Chartbeat, Fathom, Plausible Analytics, Visitor Analytics, Google Analytics 4, Mixpanel, Snowplow, Amplitude Analytics, Heap, and PostHog. Basically anything with >= .1% market penetration in the top 1M sites that had as self-service plan. There's no one-size-fits-all replacement for everyone, but there are a lot of good options if you're trying to get off of Google. Happy to…
2022 · quantable.gumroad.com · its alternatives →
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To promote my startup, I made a free tool that compares your Google Analytics stats to the industry standard's stats that have been pulled from a whole bunch of sources. Let me know what you guys think! http://www.voodooalerts.com/is-my-site-broken
2014 · its alternatives →
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It’s just the back end so it logs to MongoDB database so you can add any UI you want to it, feel free to contribute! (Suggestion’?)
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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