Also went with Plausible after some research…it’s cheap, privacy-focused
I was debating Cloudflare vs Plausible, but was convinced by their pitch here:
Cloudflare Web Analytics vs Plausible Analytics | Plausible Analytics
On the Plausible website, you can also find comps with Matomo
I’d recommend two before all the rest:
The reason is that they are really dedicated to privacy and protecting your rights. As an additional act of good faith, their newsletters do not include any trackers. They are serious when they say they are privacy focused. And their solutions are compliant with GDPR, without having arguments and weighing words and their meanings against each other.
@Kheo, your question was quite a while ago, but since I did not see anyone else answer it:
Removing GA (Google Analytics) should not affect your visibility in Google Search. Lots of the biggest, most successful sites on the Internet use Adobe Analytics and do quite well. One thing to be aware of if you do switch is that you may be relying on GA to do Google Search Console verification, so you might need to select another way to get access to that data.
Time to give this thread a tickle.
I’ve been looking for something simple to log the number of page reads. It doesn’t need to be any more fancy than WordPress.com’s page counts. I just want to know what is and isn’t read.
Would be wonderful to do this without handing over data to anyone else and, much as Ghostboard looks nice, I can’t justify the expense for a small readership specialist site.
I would honestly have expected a simple stats solution. I personally need this info before I need any info on link clicks in newsletters.
I use Counter, and I like it. Minimal, free, open source.
Counter looks good. I self-host Matomo.
Ghost seems focused on third-party analytics for post views, even though they already track referrals and referring URLs. It makes you wonder if native post-view tracking could be feasible given these capabilities are already in place.
We’re now working on this 
It’s going to take a little time to get all the details right, so I don’t have an ETA right now, but it’s in progress :)
This is awesome 
Looking forward to it 
That is amazing news!
The European Data Protection Board have recently announced their updated position on the technical applicability of Article 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive. This changes everything for everyone that hosts a website with EU visitors 
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@John From what I can see from Github, Ghost will be using the commercial Tinybird service for the stats feature ( https://www.tinybird.co/ ). Tinybird does not have an option to self-host, but they do have a free-tier for up to 1,000 requests per day.
It also looks like there will be an option in the config file to disable the the feature.
So am I right to understand that for people who self-host Ghost and don’t want to pay for Tinybird’s service, their options to use are to use Tinybird’s free tier if they are able, or disable the stats feature via config file?
Tinybird announced their new pricing plans today. Pricing · Tinybird
According to that, now free plan has “1,000 requests per day” limit. That means if you basically have more than 1,000 pageviews per day (considering Ghost will send a single event in every pageviews, and I exclude the API requests for getting the insights), free plan will not be enough for us. And next plan is $25 per month.
That leads more question marks about having this service as a part of Ghost.
Just bumping this thread up. Are there any updates on this?
Recently Tinybird announced Tinybird Local, which is a Docker container that allows to run Tinybird on your server. Self-managed regions allows connecting these servers to Tinybird Cloud. I’m not completely sure, if this means we’ll able to self-host Tinybird with the all requirements of Ghost integration though. Some clear information from Ghost team would be really great.
Just noticed tinybird in the js sdk and found this thread. I personally would have loved umami because it’s easier to selfhost and supports multiple teams. But I have been looking into more advanced data and analytics integrations so this seems interesting. Here’s some quick notes from my attempt to explore tinybird service.
Initial tinybird setup on a recent-ish mac, with a weird hybrid local and remote setup did not work for me. Docker notes: 4gb image using a very high amount of cpu. The reason might be the image was not optimized for my specific platform arm64 darwin. Was not able to proceed.
I’m hoping this lift gets easier and lighter over time with more folks trying it out if the direction is set for tinybird.
Analytics (Tinybird) are coming in 6.0. It looks to me (based on ghost-docker) that there’ll be a tinybird docker container available, hopefully making things easy for self-hosters. I think. (Github gazing is never 100%, but it looks promising!)
There’s a closed beta for analytics going on, and the built-in analytics are -gorgeous-.
Analytics was shipped in Ghost 6.0 
