11 votes

Use Fathom for site analytics?

Posted by meghan
Tags: suggestions, analytics

https://usefathom.com/
https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Fathom is a new no nosense analytics platform that is thereby fully GDPR compliant and stores no identifiable user information. It's fully open source, with self-hostable and paid options, and shows great overviews of page views and top referrers.

They have a live demo running the stats for their main site available at https://stats.usefathom.com/#!last-7-days

6 comments

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    novac
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    Thank god for alternatives like this. Using NoScript really highlights how every single fucking website in existence depends on Google.

    Thank god for alternatives like this. Using NoScript really highlights how every single fucking website in existence depends on Google.

    5 votes
    1. meghan
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      It's amazing really, I personally use uBlock Origin and it blows my mind the number of blocked requests that some sites have.

      It's amazing really, I personally use uBlock Origin and it blows my mind the number of blocked requests that some sites have.

      4 votes
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    cfabbro
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    The self-hosting aspect is definitely the most enticing aspect of this for me. Analytics not tied to any third party, especially some Big Data firm like the Goog is incredibly appealing.

    The self-hosting aspect is definitely the most enticing aspect of this for me. Analytics not tied to any third party, especially some Big Data firm like the Goog is incredibly appealing.

    4 votes
    1. meghan
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      For sure, I definitely plan to host an instance and use this in my own projects at some point. I'd offer up access to it but I'm not in a position right now to set the hosting up yet.

      For sure, I definitely plan to host an instance and use this in my own projects at some point. I'd offer up access to it but I'm not in a position right now to set the hosting up yet.

      2 votes
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      meghan
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      There's only a single network request to record the pageview. https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/wiki/FAQ#what-data-does-fathom-track

      There's only a single network request to record the pageview.

      https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/wiki/FAQ#what-data-does-fathom-track

      Fathom tracks 0 personally identifiable information on your visitors.
      When Fathom tracks a pageview, your visitor is assigned a random string which is used to determine whether it's a unique pageview. If your visitor visits another page on your site, the previous pageview is processed & deleted within 1 minute. If the visitor leaves your site, the pageview is processed & deleted when the session ends (in 30 minutes).

      1 vote
      1. meghan
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        Fathom also complies with Do Not Track requests https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/wiki/FAQ#fathom-is-not-tracking-my-pageviews

        Fathom also complies with Do Not Track requests
        https://github.com/usefathom/fathom/wiki/FAQ#fathom-is-not-tracking-my-pageviews

        If you have the tracking snippet in place and Fathom is still not tracking you, most likely you have navigator.doNotTrack enabled. Fathom is respecting your browser's "Do Not Track" setting right now.

        1 vote