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Best Web Analytics tools by public signals

These picks are computed from scored public evidence. Use the openness column in the ranking to separate OSI-approved, source-available, open-core, proprietary, and unverified-license tools.

Best overallMatomo97 score License-safe pickMatomoOSI-approved OSS Fastest shippingMatomo100 shipping

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, health, shipping, confidence, and then adoption as a tie-breaker.

#	Tool	Health	Shipping	Openness	Stars	Score	Status
01	Matomo Empowering People Ethically 🚀 — Matomo is hiring! Join us → https://matomo.org/jobs Matomo is the leading open-source alternative to Google Analytics, giving you complete control and built-in privacy. Easily collect, visualise, and analyse data from websites & apps. Star us on GitHub ⭐️ – Pull Requests welcome!	93	100	OSI-approved OSS	21.7k	97	Active
02	Rybbit 🐸 Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.	87	87	OSI-approved OSS	12.5k	90	Active
03	Swetrix 📈 Swetrix is a cookie-less, open source, privacy-first web analytics, website speed monitoring and error tracking service that you can host yourself or use in the cloud. Get started for free!	86	88	OSI-approved OSS	1.1k	90	Active
04	Plausible Analytics Simple and privacy-friendly web analytics	84	69	OSI-approved OSS	28.2k	83	Active
05	GoAccess GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.	64	35	OSI-approved OSS	20.7k	62	Warning
06	Ackee Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.	58	4	OSI-approved OSS	4.7k	51	Warning
07	AP Analytics Open-source privacy-first web analytics platform.	44	7	License unknown	4	41	Critical
08	Artfolio Analytics Open-source analytics platform for Artfolio.	33	0	License unknown	2	36	Critical
09	github-profile-views-counter It counts how many times your GitHub profile has been viewed. Free cloud micro-service.	36	0	OSI-approved OSS	5k	35	Critical
10	Prisme Analytics Self-hosted website analytics service.	33	0	OSI-approved OSS	127	35	Critical
11	Loglib Privacy-focused open-source web analytics platform.	21	0	OSI-approved OSS	416	28	Critical
12	Your Analytics Privacy-focused web analytics platform.	3	0	License unknown	40	20	Critical

Evidence Watch

Tracked tools with useful public signals but no verdict score yet.

Analytics

Open-source analytics alternative to Google Analytics and Plausible.

77 confidence

Databuddy

Privacy-first analytics platform focused on user experience and compliance.

100 confidence

GoatCounter

Privacy-focused website analytics.

74 confidence

Powerful Analytics Solution. Setup in 30 seconds. Display all your data on a Simple, AI-powered dashboard. Fully self-hostable and GDPR compliant. Alternative to Google Analytics, MixPanel, Plausible, Umami & Matomo.

91 confidence