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 <strong>self-host</strong> 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.

• Source: https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter

• Extracted from upstream docs: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arp242/goatcounter/HEAD/README.md

Documentation

• https://www.goatcounter.com

Source

• Agent Skill Exchange