Ackee
Web and SaaS
website analytics
SHOW HN2019
214points
51comments
#179of 2,195 in 2019
Top 9%of 2019 by points
How HN took it
LovedMost comments that take a side are positive
6 positive, 23 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 30 comments about the project. Thread score +0.18.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, minimal interface and lightweight design
From 3 comments
There is a huge need for massive innovation in this field. As with many other products Google came in and sucked all the air out of the room. I'll be installing this on my website.
vxNsr on HNThis looks nice and clean. Is it all domain based, or can I drill down to view hits of individual URLs. +1 for self-hosting analytics, something I encourage everyone to do if you…
AndrewStephens on HNLooks very nice! Simple, clean, and attractive. This seems to me like a perfect job for a serverless solution, given how popular static sites have become. Serverless would…
dangoor on HN
Privacy-first approach, no unique user tracking
From 2 comments
I was thinking "well if you still store user identifiable data it's still going to infringe privacy" but then I was satisfied when I read: > No unique user tracking on the site.
aledalgrande on HNThis looks nice and clean. Is it all domain based, or can I drill down to view hits of individual URLs. +1 for self-hosting analytics, something I encourage everyone to do if you…
AndrewStephens on HN
Self-hosted analytics fills a real need
From 2 comments
This is great. I think there's a market for self-hosted/on-prem analytics software due to the mounting privacy fears and browser-default third-party request blocking. Outside of…
lxe on HNThis looks nice and clean. Is it all domain based, or can I drill down to view hits of individual URLs. +1 for self-hosting analytics, something I encourage everyone to do if you…
AndrewStephens on HN
Objections
Privacy claim questioned since it still collects some visitor data by default
From 2 comments
> for those who care about privacy. As a user, I dont see tracking by specifically google being the problem; what I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted…
orangepanda on HN> What I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted or not. > I've used goaccess. It reads from nginx/apache logs. While I'm using GoAccess myself and I too…
darekkay on HN
Lacks features like bounce rate, sessions and event tracking
From 2 comments
Looks very promising. Might I also suggest a few other useful metrics: Bounce Rate: The percentage of visitors to a particular website who navigate away from the site after…
donohoe on HNI'm always interested in these. Would love to get off Google Analytics. Alas, they always seem to forget to offer event based interaction tracking (e.g., button clicks). Most of…
technotarek on HN
No migration path from Google Analytics data
From 1 comment
Anyone have any tales to tell around migrating Google Analytics data into a self-hosted system and how well it worked? I don't see such a feature for this one.
bdefore on HN
Requests
Event tracking such as button clicks
From 1 comment
I'm always interested in these. Would love to get off Google Analytics. Alas, they always seem to forget to offer event based interaction tracking (e.g., button clicks). Most of…
technotarek on HN
Page views and per-URL drill-down
From 2 comments
This looks nice and clean. Is it all domain based, or can I drill down to view hits of individual URLs. +1 for self-hosting analytics, something I encourage everyone to do if you…
AndrewStephens on HNGlad you like it! There's still a lot missing in Ackee, but even with all the features I'm planning to add it will never be a full replacement for Google Analytics. And I think…
electerious on HN
Multi-user access per site
From 1 comment
Is there any sort of user management, so each user have access to stats about its own website? We are building a WordPress hosting company and would love to offer this as an…
jamesponddotco on HN
Nginx log import or server-side integration
From 2 comments
Do I need to add the javascript to get any data or can I also just use the nginx logs?
jeena on HNLooks good! We removed analytics from our sites for privacy and simplicity reasons so I’ll consider this. Does it use JavaScript clientside or hook up to express or nginx or…
breck on HN
Questions
Does it need JavaScript or can it use server logs
From 2 comments
Looks good! We removed analytics from our sites for privacy and simplicity reasons so I’ll consider this. Does it use JavaScript clientside or hook up to express or nginx or…
breck on HNDo I need to add the javascript to get any data or can I also just use the nginx logs?
jeena on HN
Is it GDPR compliant and does it need a cookie banner
From 2 comments
I presume I have to include a `cookie` tracking acceptance modal for GDPR compliance. Correct?
zebnyc on HNAckee only tracks page views, site visits and referrers by default. It stores no IPs and it's not possible to view the browsing history of a user. The data can't be used to…
electerious on HN
How does it scale to millions of records
From 2 comments
What happens when you start to accumulate over 5 million+ records (as an arbitrary large number)? Or a couple gigs of stats data? We used to provide our own stats software to our…
dpcan on HN> What happens when you start to accumulate over 5 million+ records I don't think Ackee is the right tool if your site as so many visitors. And to be honest: I don't know what…
electerious on HN
Alternatives named
Matomo
From 2 comments
Piwik/Matomo is a popular tool in the same space. How would you compare Ackee to Matomo (tech aside)?
bildung on HNHave you considered Matomo? https://matomo.org/
peter_tonoli on HN
Fathom
From 2 comments
How does this compare to Fathom?
bovermyer on HNCouple of ones I can think of: Fathom: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom Goatcounter: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter Freshlytics: https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics…
rkwz on HN
GoAccess
From 2 comments
> for those who care about privacy. As a user, I dont see tracking by specifically google being the problem; what I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted…
orangepanda on HN> What I'm against is being tracked _at all_ - by anyone, self hosted or not. > I've used goaccess. It reads from nginx/apache logs. While I'm using GoAccess myself and I too…
darekkay on HN
Goatcounter and Freshlytics
From 1 comment
Couple of ones I can think of: Fathom: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom Goatcounter: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter Freshlytics: https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics…
rkwz on HN