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Best Lightweight Web Analytics for self-hosting

The 13 best Lightweight web analytics you can self-host, ranked by community traction.

Umami

Simple, fast, privacy-focused web analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 38.1k Easy setup MIT

Plausible

Lightweight, privacy-friendly website analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 28.4k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Fathom Lite

Simple, open-source website analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 8k Easy setup MIT

Evidence

Code-driven business intelligence with Markdown

Replaces Tableau, Looker

★ 6.8k Medium setup MIT

GoatCounter

Easy and privacy-friendly web analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 5.9k Easy setup EUPL-1.2

Ackee

Self-hosted, privacy-focused analytics tool

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 4.7k Easy setup MIT

Shynet

Modern, privacy-friendly, detailed web analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 3.1k Easy setup Apache-2.0

Counterscale

Scalable web analytics that runs on Cloudflare Workers

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 2.1k Easy setup MIT

Vince Analytics

Self-hosted, privacy-friendly web analytics in one binary

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 2k Easy setup AGPL-3.0

Pirsch

Privacy-friendly, cookie-free web analytics platform

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 1k Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Counter.dev Selfhost

Minimalist privacy-respecting web analytics

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 1k Easy setup MIT

Offen Fair Web Analytics

Transparent, fair web analytics that respects users

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 978 Medium setup Apache-2.0

Medama

Privacy-focused website analytics with no cookies

Replaces Google Analytics

★ 636 Easy setup MIT

Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Lightweight within the web analytics category. Compare them on the individual app pages for setup difficulty and resource requirements.