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Interesting! I'm familiar with posthog.com/web-analytics and matomo.org/matomo-on-pr... as OSS GA alternatives. Presumably you have a strong point of view that takes you in a different direction?

Posthog has a different use case and goes beyond basic stats. But for a personal website this is often overhead.

You’re right… OwnStats is able to collect any events as well, but I haven’t build a UI for the event analytics yet. The client is based on getanalytics.io meaning you’d also be able to send the data to other tools in parallel. I still have to write the docs for this though.

I like using serverless services on AWS, instead of having to run stuff myself. And I like snappy user interfaces. Also, I like to saving money, and data privacy, so instead of paying SaaS providers $$ and not owning the data, I thought that this will eventually be a sweet spot for some people.

Sounds promising. Excited to try it out!

Highlevel architecture intro: docs.ownstats.com/architecture...

Very interesting. I hadn’t thought about using CloudFront realtime logs as a data source. My one concern here for low throughput websites is the Kinesis Stream - I think that’s actually $.04 / hour, so just under $30 / month, no?

No, it’s using provisioned mode for $0.015/hour * 24 * 30 = $10.80/month. I‘m running this in my account since about a year, and the total costs are $11-12/month. Mileage may very, as it’s usage-based.

Congrats Tobi, that looks very interesting. I have used GoatCounter for a long time, but self-hosting with DuckDB at some point, maybe. I noted it down :) Great work. You have been super productive! Keep it up :)