agentskillexchange GoatCounter Privacy-First Web Analytics Platform
GoatCounter is an open source analytics platform for privacy-friendly pageview tracking, referrer reporting, and lightweight site stats. It can be used as a hosted service or self-hosted, and it supports JavaScript, backend API, and logfile-based ingestion paths.
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- make improvements, or self-host it for any purpose.
- database file or a PostgreSQL connection. Alternatively you can use Docker, as
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
Running with Docker
- % docker run \
- % docker exec -it [..] goatcounter db create site -vhost=stats.example.com -user.email=me@example.com
Basic usage or getting-started notes:
There are two ways to run this: as hosted service on [goatcounter.com][www], or
run it on your own server. The source code is completely Open Source/Free
Use the HTTP/REST API, for example from your backend server middleware.
Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arp242/goatcounter/HEAD/README.md