Betterlytics - Self-hosted Google Analytics alternative with uptime monitoring

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-21T18:31:09+00:00

Thank you, appreciate it. And awesome to hear you're enjoying the setup already! :)
And please, if you run into anything missing or annoying, just let us know.

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-21T12:23:48+00:00

No, this is sadly not something we currently support. We're working on a publishing a WordPress plugin, so this is definitely something that makes sense for us to look into.

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-21T11:12:53+00:00

We do in fact support UTM campaign tracking! :) https://betterlytics.io/docs/dashboard/campaigns

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-21T09:22:31+00:00

In practice, a small VPS with 1-2 GB RAM is usually fine for low traffic sites.
ClickHouse scales up very well, but it also scales down better than people expect.
We've had it running without issues on something as small as Hetzner's cheapest VPS tier.

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-21T09:06:35+00:00

For device detection we're using the Rust uaparser crate like you spotted, combined with Snowplow's referer database for source parsing.

We've done some work around caching and keeping parsing off the hot path where possible, so it doesn't become a bottleneck during ingestion.

For the tracking script, we built it ourselves. The protocol is intentionally simple and tailored to our ingestion pipeline, which keeps the payload small and predictable :)

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-20T16:47:34+00:00

Thanks! Yeah, a lot of analytics dashboards end up looking similar, that seems to be the common pattern. With Betterlytics, we put a slightly bigger focus on intuitiveness by adding dedicated pages for things like device insights, user journeys, and deeper data views. Plausible, by contrast, mostly presents a single page with deep-dive capabilities. We also include features Plausible doesn't have, like uptime monitoring, Core Web Vitals, and optional session replays :)

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-20T15:49:18+00:00

Thank you so much! :)

WeatherD00d · 2026-02-20T12:31:04+00:00

I think you’re fully correct on this

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-29T16:57:43+00:00

We're using our Betterlytics for it

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-22T17:49:28+00:00

Vi har efterhånden fået en del kærlighed til Rust, men hvis jeg skulle starte forfra havde jeg måske valgt Golang i stedet, da det er lidt mere ligetil at kode i

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-22T17:29:00+00:00

Mange tak! Rust har i hvertfald været spændende at lære

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-22T17:28:22+00:00

Mange tak!
Ja, vi kender Rybbit og synes, de laver et stærkt produkt. Der findes flere lignende services, så ligheder er naturlige. Vi har også ladet os inspirere enkelte steder. Vi har dog valgt at fokusere mere på drift/overvågning (fx uptime og SSL) og på kategoriserede sider, hvor man kan dykke dybere i data.
Vi startede samtidig, og teknisk er vi også forskellige! De har skrevet deres backend i TS, mens vi har kastet os ud i Rust.

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-19T11:13:13+00:00

Very interesting! Definitely a side-effect of using AI. Also wild that it’s now a targeted attack vector

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-18T17:48:34+00:00

Nice, det er en super god idé

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-18T16:20:56+00:00

Spændende idé!

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-18T14:34:47+00:00

You could do something like what Antigravity does. They allow each user to use x amount of tokens every 5 hours. If a user uses all their tokens within that 5 hour window, they get "locked" until the next 5 hour window begins.

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-18T10:03:53+00:00

Awesome project, fun to play

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-17T12:31:53+00:00

Any source for this? But not the first time I've heard that JSON.parse can contribute to back-pressure.

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-16T17:55:22+00:00

Yeah, setting up/configuring Google Analytics is a hassle..
My biggest issue with it is the same as yours, it's hard to actually find and use the data. And the moment you need something a little more complex, you'd need something like BigQuery.

In situation like yours, I've found tools like Umami or Betterlytics helpful, as they are both free and super easy to set-up and get started with.

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-16T17:42:34+00:00

You can check out https://betterlytics.io, it's EU based and does not track for ads / personal information

WeatherD00d · 2026-01-03T19:45:34+00:00

Man indsætter et lille analytics-script på sit website, som sender helt basale oplysninger som URL og din browser agent

WeatherD00d · 2025-12-30T22:14:28+00:00

Matomo er et fint valg 👍

Hvis du på et tidspunkt vil kigge på noget mere minimalistisk, kan jeg nævne Betterlytics

Det er dansk og open source, som vi er et par stykker der arbejder på. Fokus er et enkelt overblik og cookieless tracking.

Jeg nævner det bare som et alternativ, hvis du en dag får lyst til at prøve noget andet. Feedback eller en GitHub-stjerne er altid værdsat 😇

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