Alistair4d ago

New blog post! 🥳

It's about using Goatcounter for small projects as a simple and cheap analytics tool that's pretty good privacy-wise compared to other options.

This post has been sitting in my drafts since September last year. 😅

https://alistairshepherd.uk/writing/simple-website-analytics-with-goatcounter/

Simple website analytics with Goatcounter - Alistair Shepherd

Using Goatcounter as a simple web analytics tool that is good for privacy, low in cost, lightweight, and simple. This is how I got on with it!

Alistair Shepherd
Show threadAmadeus Maximilian3d ago

@accudio It’s always nice reading what others are doing in this space! I went through a similar journey as you last year, event tried GoatCounter for a while, but I just hated its design. 😅

So I settled with Umami, but that turned unreasonably hard to maintain on my hosting provider of choice…so I’m currently building my own system. 🤣

Let’s see how that goes.

Show threadAlistair3d ago

@amxmln Yeah I started with Umami and found it hard to maintain and unreliable.

I think functionally Goatcounter is there for me but I have got on my 'ideas' list forking it with a new custom theme!

Show threadAmadeus Maximilian

@accudio You might not need to fork it, afaik it has an API you could use to request data from your own frontend. 😊

I just failed to get CORS to work properly, so I discarded that idea. 😅 Another issue I had with GoatCounter was the way it handles multiple sites.

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