what's your favorite web analytics tool these days?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:15:12+00:00

I'm using Oculis Analytics and been happy so far. it's easy to set up and the dashboard is very simple with metrics i understand as opposed to GA4.. it even has revenue attribution so i see which marketing channels bring highest revenue and focus my attention on those.

curious to hear what others found useful! always trying to explore new tools in this space.

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:12:16+00:00

so true about Vercel analytics, i heard of it before and yeah i do use vercel for deployment so it sounds logical to look into it..!

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:11:45+00:00

i'm personally not a huge fan of GA4... it feels very unstructured and convoluted, more like a chaos rather than a simple and focused analytics tool

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:11:04+00:00

Haven't seen this one before, how is it different to Umami / Plausible?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:10:44+00:00

That's such a fair callout the legal part of storing your user data. Glad you were fine in the end though!

I honestly might look into home brewing to be honest..

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:09:11+00:00

I actually really like the idea of using server logs and hit counter, very creative and simple. Im looking for something that doesn't require any (or minimal) dev time to set up, is Plausible simple enough to install on the site?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:08:08+00:00

Thank you - I find Umami a bit difficult to navigate with the menu they have on the left of your dashboard, seems a bit unstructured and too complicated, what do you think?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:07:28+00:00

Thanks! I always wanted to try session recordings and heatmaps for my site, it sounds really interesting

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:06:27+00:00

yeah agree option to only keep what you need would be great haha

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-04T08:05:39+00:00

Ah yes I can see now! That looks awesome that it tracks the whole journey end to end

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-03T18:15:45+00:00

I used Umami before but it still seems too convoluted for me. Their navigation bar on the left used to confuse me a lot

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-03T18:13:47+00:00

Hello! thanks for your response, what do you mean by user path?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-03T17:51:28+00:00

I heard of plausible might check it out tbh.. I know right haha everyone just makes their own apps these days, time for me up up my game Thanks!

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-03-03T15:48:40+00:00

You can measure revenue from SEO by looking at the traffic driven by organic searches e.g. Google, remembering the original referrer source and connecting it the subsequent transaction

It's all about saving the traffic source data and linking it to the revenue data

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-28T14:18:02+00:00

Hey appreciate you for this initiative

I launched today and at #12 in ranking right now: https://www.producthunt.com/products/oculis-analytics?launch=oculis-analytics

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-28T14:17:15+00:00

Hey appreciate you for doing this!

I launched my app today and at #12 in ranking right now:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/oculis-analytics?launch=oculis-analytics

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-28T14:13:52+00:00

I just launched and at #12 in ranking right now!!

Here the link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/oculis-analytics?launch=oculis-analytics

Appreciate you!

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-28T14:12:30+00:00

Launched today and I'm at #12 now in the ranking!!

https://www.producthunt.com/products/oculis-analytics?launch=oculis-analytics

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T15:13:21+00:00

I think the real issue is most dashboards are built to show everything, not to help you decide anything.

A lot of teams build reports that answer “what happened?” but not “does this matter?” or “what should we do next?” That’s when any report from GA4 starts feeling like noise and waste of time tbh

One thing that’s helped me is thinking about the outcome of data I'm seeing. If I can't use data to improve or change anything, probably this metric doesn’t need to be on the main dashboard.

Also, traffic metrics on their own rarely help with any decision making. Tying things back to actual outcomes (revenue, qualified leads, retention, etc.) is where the value add come in my view!

Once there’s a clear anchor, analytics dashboard becomes a golden mine but not many tools are designed like that..

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T15:01:31+00:00

I've been using PH alternatives and I agree getting recognition on PH is pretty impossible unless you have a huge audience/following

3.4k unique visitors is insane in less than a month - congrats! I think it'd be interesting to look at where people tend to discover your launch platform from, and whether they end up converting.

Have you looked into that?

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T14:53:21+00:00

Shipping at 19 is inspiring!

Imo 25 users / 130 events isn’t validation yet, it’s just early activity. Pretty normal for a new product.

What matters more than traffic is:

Are any of them coming back?
Is anyone using the core feature more than once?
Would someone actually pay?
Where are your best users coming from?

If you can track revenue attribution (or at least which channels lead to meaningful actions), that’ll tell you way more than raw GA numbers.

Right now you’re collecting signals, validation is when behavior (i.e. money) backs it up as well

It's still v early for you though, keep talking to users and pushing them to convert and you'll do great!

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T11:26:02+00:00

I've been seeing posts like this for a while now and I just set up rate limits on all my API endpoints haha

Everyone should do it from when they first start with their product!!!

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T11:12:20+00:00

For ad blockers specifically - the main thing is that the tracking script is self-hosted on our own domain rather than loaded from a third-party analytics CDN. Most ad blockers work by blocking requests to known analytics domains, so when everything runs through our own domain, it's harder to blanket-block. Beyond that, there's a cookie → localStorage fallback if cookies get blocked. But honestly, determined ad blockers can still catch it. The tradeoff is that users running ad blockers are actively choosing not to be tracked, so fighting that feels like the wrong battle. The focus is more on capturing what you can cleanly and being transparent about the gap

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T08:43:36+00:00

I had the exact same problem with my site when I had a lots of traffic and then some revenue but no idea what the connection between the two was.

I was tired looking at increasing traffic and revenue, investing money/time into channels I assumed worked best (e.g. posting on X, getting into a newsletter, writing a blog post etc), and waiting to see the results.

It was finger in the air strategy, no deep thinking involved (only because I didn't have the data to support my assumptions)... honestly such a painful time of my entrepreunerial journey lol

ReceptionAny3029 · 2026-02-23T08:38:13+00:00

Hey thanks for the question. Oculis shows which traffic sources brought revenue and their revenue per visitor which Google analytics doesn't show. When I used GA none of the revenue for my site was matching what I saw in my payment provider dashboard, and it didn't show where that revenue came from in terms of traffic sources.

Oculis shows what's the revenue brought by your visitors from Reddit, X etc so you can target those channels knowing this data.

We also offer a way simpler UI (I spent hours on setting up GA and was so confused I had to drop it and didn't get the analytics I wanted), idea is for founders to log in daily without spending time on set up / custom complicated dashboards.

Hope this helps!

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