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.

Use Case Rankings

Ordered by ToolVitals score, then health, shipping, confidence, GitHub stars, and name.

#ToolHealthShippingOpennessStarsScoreStatus
01Matomo
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!
9796OSI-approved OSS22k96Active
02Rybbit
🐸 Rybbit - open-source and privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that is 10x more intuitive.
9391OSI-approved OSS13.2k93Active
03Swetrix
📈 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!
9293OSI-approved OSS1.2k92Active
04Plausible Analytics
Simple and privacy-friendly web analytics
9288OSI-approved OSS29.7k91Active
05Open Web Analytics
Self-hosted web analytics platform for tracking website and application usage.
9089OSI-approved OSS2.7k90Active
06Databuddy
Privacy-first analytics platform focused on user experience and compliance.
8789OSI-approved OSS1.2k88Active
07Pirsch
Pirsch is a drop-in, server-side, no-cookie, and privacy-focused analytics solution for Go.
8487OSI-approved OSS1k85Active
08Ackee
Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy.
8281OSI-approved OSS4.7k82Active
09GoAccess
GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
8477OSI-approved OSS21.1k81Active
10Seentics
Privacy-first web analytics platform with dashboards, replays, heatmaps, and funnels.
8083OSI-approved OSS1081Active
11GoatCounter
Privacy-focused website analytics.
6959OSI-approved OSS6.1k65Warning
12github-profile-views-counter
It counts how many times your GitHub profile has been viewed. Free cloud micro-service.
350OSI-approved OSS5.1k21Critical

Not Scored

Tracked for context, but excluded from rankings because comparable open/source-visible evidence is unavailable.

Analytics

Open-source analytics alternative to Google Analytics and Plausible.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

AP Analytics

Open-source privacy-first web analytics platform.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Artfolio Analytics

Open-source analytics platform for Artfolio.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Medama

Privacy-focused website analytics.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

MedamaLite

Self-hostable, privacy-focused website analytics.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Statistics for Strava

Self-hosted, open-source dashboard for Strava data.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Traffic Source

Open-source web analytics you deploy in one click.

ToolVitals does not score proprietary or unknown-license tools because their public source evidence is not comparable to open/source-visible projects.

Your Analytics

Privacy-focused web analytics platform.

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