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Open Web Analytics

Self-hosted web analytics with click and heatmap tracking

Web Analytics ★ 2.7k stars Medium setup GPL-2.0

Open Web Analytics (OWA) is a long-standing self-hosted web analytics framework that tracks visitors, click streams, and heatmaps. It can be embedded in WordPress and MediaWiki.

Key features

  • Click stream tracking
  • Heatmaps
  • WordPress integration
  • Visitor profiles

Strengths

  • Released under the GPL-2.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.7k GitHub stars)
  • Written in PHP

Is Open Web Analytics secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Open Web Analytics's latest release (1.14.0). OSV.dev lists 4 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-97865, published 2026-09-25 (19 days ago)

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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SelfHostIndex: 89 · excellent

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