Choosing a web analytics tool means balancing product scope, maintainability, deployment control, and privacy. This July 2026 comparison uses ToolVitals data covering project health, shipping activity, licensing, and GitHub popularity.
The ranking includes open/source-visible tools only and orders them by ToolVitals score, with GitHub stars used as a secondary popularity signal for tie-breaking. The supplied scores and ordering are preserved.
Rankings
| Rank | Tool | Openness | License | Health | Shipping | GitHub Stars | Score | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Matomo | OSI-approved OSS | GPL-3.0 | 93 | 100 | 21713 | 97 | 🟢 Excellent |
| 2 | PeakURL | OSI-approved OSS | MIT | 63 | 82 | 5 | 78 | 🟢 Good |
| 3 | Databuddy | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 69 | 60 | 1112 | 74 | 🟢 Good |
| 4 | Seentics | OSI-approved OSS | AGPL-3.0 | 56 | 63 | 7 | 66 | 🟢 Good |
| 5 | Litlyx | OSI-approved OSS | Apache-2.0 | 39 | 0 | 1742 | 40 | 🟡 Fair |
Top 3 Highlights
Matomo ranks first with a ToolVitals score of 97, a health score of 93, and a shipping score of 100, the strongest combined signals in this group. Its current first-party positioning emphasizes self-hosted analytics, full data ownership, raw data access, and control over where data is stored. Matomo is OSI-approved OSS under GPL-3.0.
PeakURL ranks second with a ToolVitals score of 78, supported by a shipping score of 82 despite its small GitHub audience. It is primarily a self-hosted URL shortener rather than a general-purpose web analytics platform, but its built-in analytics cover clicks, unique visitors, referrers, browsers, devices, date ranges, and click history. PeakURL is OSI-approved OSS under MIT.
Databuddy ranks third with a ToolVitals score of 74, a health score of 69, and a shipping score of 60. Its current platform combines page-view and session analytics with real-time monitoring, Core Web Vitals, JavaScript error tracking, custom events, and conversion funnels through one browser tracker. Databuddy is OSI-approved OSS under AGPL-3.0.
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