GoatCounter

Summary

GoatCounter is an open-source web analytics platform that prioritizes privacy and provides easy-to-use, meaningful statistics without tracking personal data. This self-hosted app offers a lightweight and fast solution, adding only ~3.5KB of extra data to your site. It identifies unique visits without cookies or persistently storing any personal data, providing useful statistics such as browser information, location, and screen size.

Main Features

• Privacy-aware: Does not track users with unique identifiers and does not require a GDPR notice.
• Lightweight and fast: Adds only ~3.5KB of extra data to your site.
• Unique visit identification: Identifies visits without cookies or persistently storing any personal data.
• Useful statistics: Provides information on browser, location, screen size, referring sites, and campaigns.
• Easy to use: Offers a straightforward interface for tracking and analyzing website activity.

These features make GoatCounter an attractive alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo for those prioritizing user privacy.