Analytics: An Open-source Self-hosted Web Analytics

What is Analytics?

Analytics is a free open-source lightweight analytics abstraction library for tracking page views, custom events, & identify visitors.

Features

• Extendable - Bring your own third-party tool & plugins
• Test & debug analytics integrations with time travel & offline mode
• Add functionality/modify tracking calls with baked in lifecycle hooks
• Isomorphic. Works in browser & on server
• Queues events to send when analytic libraries are loaded
• Conditionally load third party scripts
• Works offline
• TypeScript support
• Developer-friendly API.
• Easy to integrate and add to any JavaScript web project.

Why?

Companies frequently change analytics requirements based on evolving needs. This results in a lot of complexity, maintenance, & extra code when adding/removing analytic services to a site or application.

This library aims to solve that with a simple pluggable abstraction layer.

Driving philosophy:

• You should never be locked into an analytics tool
• DX is paramount. Adding & removing analytic tools from your application should be easy
• Respecting visitor privacy settings & allowing for opt-out mechanisms is crucial
• A pluggable API makes adding new business requests easy

To add or remove an analytics provider, adjust the plugins you load into analytics during initialization.

Plugins and Third-party Analytics

Analytics currently supports the following services:

• Google Analytics
• Google Tag Manager
• Segment
• Customer.io
• HubSpot
• Snowplow Analytics
• Mixpanel
• Amplitude
• AWS Pinpoint
• FullStory
• Intercom
• CrazyEgg
• GoSquared
• Simple Analytics
• Ownstats
• Perfume.js
• Countly
• Custify

License

• MIT license

Resources

• Home
• Source
• Demo