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Explore alternatives to Google Analytics

Added by Matt Gold almost 8 years ago. Updated almost 4 years ago.

Status:
Assigned
Priority name:
Normal
Assignee:
Valerie Townsend
Category name:
Analytics
Target version:
Start date:
2016-05-21
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Description

Per our discussion at the May 20 subcommittee meeting, please explore alternatives to Google Analytics. Thank you!


Related issues

Related to CUNY Academic Commons - Bug #10722: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google AnalyticsResolvedBoone Gorges2018-11-17

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Actions #1

Updated by Boone Gorges almost 8 years ago

  • Target version set to Future release

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software

I think our minimum requirements are:
1. Must be FLOSS
2. Must be self-hosted
3. Must provide API so that we can provide user-specific data

I think that these limit our options to two packages:
- Piwik https://piwik.org/
- Open Web Analytics http://www.openwebanalytics.com/

My initial impression is that Piwik is more widely used and under more active development. It also has a popular WordPress plugin that we could probably use as a starting place for Dashboard integration on the Commons: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-piwik/

It'd be nice to get a preliminary review of Piwik from Valerie to see if she thinks it'd be sufficient for our purposes. If she says that it's missing critical functionality, then it may be a non-starter.

Actions #2

Updated by Boone Gorges almost 8 years ago

  • Assignee changed from Boone Gorges to Valerie Townsend

Valerie, I've taken the liberty of creating a Redmine account for you so that I can assign you this ticket :) Let me know if you have any problems logging in.

Actions #3

Updated by Raymond Hoh about 5 years ago

  • Related to Bug #10722: StatPress performance & migrate to per-site Google Analytics added
Actions #4

Updated by Raymond Hoh about 5 years ago

I came across this ticket while I was cleaning up the Future Release milestone the other day. The momentum behind removing the StatPress plugin in #10722 made me think of this ticket.

FWIW, Piwik is now Matomo - https://matomo.org/blog/2018/01/piwik-is-now-matomo/

Actions #5

Updated by scott voth almost 4 years ago

Here is another alternative that I came across - https://plausible.io/

Open Source, requires no cookies, fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR

Actions #6

Updated by Matt Gold almost 4 years ago

On our community team call, we said we'd discuss this in more depth next week at our meeting

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