I made a web analytics tool - webanalytics.tech

[jcreek]

webanalytics.tech is self-hosted web analytics tool built with Node.js and PostgreSQL. It is designed for developers who want complete control over their data, privacy, and infrastructure.

Why another web analytics tool?

Years ago, I had an idea to build a web analytics tool for a high-traffic website I was working on, but due to other priorities, I never did. In December last year, I had free time around holidays and started hacking a web analytics tool for fun, a week later, I had a prototype and decided to continue to work on it as it was pretty enjoyable.

After almost three months, v1.0, is ready. I decided to sell it as a self-hosted tool with simple pricing, purchase once and use forever.

I hope you find it useful

Web: https://webanalytics.tech

Demo: https://demo.webanalytics.tech/public?site=fGzqG-6fFKYuQ

https://preview.redd.it/p8g9yazpbik...bp&s=3d09bf2cbe52d90c29e7b5a891b718f62227dcbf

 

[aaaa12]

@jcreek How it's better than clarity or Google analytics? There's plausible too if anyone wants a simpler one ... Not discouraging you though, since it's not open source or free, just asking.

 

[jcreek]

@aaaa12 It's not better, just a different approach. Clarity and GA are SaaS, webanalytics.tech is a self-hosted tool, pay once, download the source code, and host by yourself or integrate it into your product.

 

[aaaa12]

@jcreek Thanks for clarifying, is this product available in gumroad or codecanyon?

 

[jcreek]

@aaaa12 No, but maybe I should make it available.

Thnx for an idea!

 

[tiiira]

@aaaa12 Google Analytics is a usability mess. The new GA4 upgrades is nonsense.

 

[karenwnc]

@jcreek With AdBlock enabled, your website is looking very sad: https://ibb.co/5rtszjK

At the pricing section, the "First year updates free, 70% yearly cost later" sounds odd. I don't know what the 70% thing means.

I think the product looks good. I would imagine a hosted version would attract a lot more customers, but that's just my gut feeling.

 

[cn_999]

@karenwnc Yeah, not turning my ublock off for this.

 

[jcreek]

@karenwnc I know, a friend told me few hours ago

For some reason uBlock ad blocker blocks loading css/js files, probably due analytics word in domain.

"First year updates free, 70% yearly cost later" - means first year your receive all updates for free then next year if you would like to received updates you pay 70% of initial price (you get 30% discount). Let me fix that wording, it is weird

 

[live4christ2016]

@jcreek Yeah just say discount.

Site doesn’t work at all on iPad Safari:

https://imgur.com/yReaXc7

 

[jcreek]

@live4christ2016 Yep, I already updated!

Hmm, strange, thanks for letting me know; I will check it...

 

[chou91]

@jcreek It’s very similar to plausible analytics dashboard ?

 

[jcreek]

@chou91 Yes, it is very similar to other analytics tools.

 

[bleeper123]

@jcreek Nice UI, I would make it a sub. based and lower the prices 16 USD - 19 USD -79 USD etc. also more free tools would be nice to make it more engaging and it would also help SEO. but I don't see what differentiate it from competitors ?

 

[jcreek]

@bleeper123 There are already more than a few web analytics SaaS. I want to try the model of self-hosting. Main differentiator is self-hosting, pay once, and host by yourself, no monthly subscription, you own your data and you can modify tool or integrate with existing app.

It's built with nodejs and Express, pretty standard node app that should be easily modified to fit different needs.

 

[jcreek]

I just remembered that I should mention AWStats [https://awstats.sourceforge.io/\] is an inspiration to build analytics tool. I used it for all projects in the 2000s; at the time, it was only an analytics solution.

 

[0theparadox0]

@jcreek I always have this concern with self hosting SaaS
"I would have to manage all the persistent layers now"

Bigger companies wouldn't worry about this as they can have dedicated staff to manage the app/servers.

It's better to use a hosted SaaS for smaller startups or solo makers

 

[jcreek]

@0theparadox0 Indeed, that was the case in the past. Today, there are many services offering affordable managed hosting, such as fly.io and render.com. I include instructions https://webanalytics.tech/howto how to deploy on above services.

I agree, I do not suggest webanalytics.tech to non-developers.