Self-hosted web analytics

The Plausible Analytics dashboard which shows aggregate data only.

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Description

I value user data privacy and have made efforts to remove unnecessary tracking scripts and code from organizations like Google from my websites. For many years I ran, like most websites, Google Analytics to measure and understand visitors.

In May 2022, I learned of an open-source website analytics software with a focus on user privacy, called Plausible Analytics. I chose to set up a new webserver to run this self-host this software and replaced Google Analytics completely with it.

In the spirit of transparency, my website analytics are public-facing and can be viewed by anyone.

View Because Birds website analytics

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Technical details

Plausible Analytics uses no cookies and is fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR. It's lightweight and easy to set up in a Docker environment.

Platform	Plausible Analytics
Domain	metrics.becausebirds.com
Server type	Virtual Private Server (VPS)
Server host	Digital Ocean droplet
Server details	1GB memory / 25GB disk