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How to Self Host your own Website Analytics With Umami

Sachin Chaurasiya on August 14, 2022

When we talk about website analytics, the first thing that comes to mind is Google Analytics. However, we all know that Google Analytics captures a...
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JoelBonetR 🥇

That's quite interesting, thanks for sharing!

Bookmarking for my future me 😁

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Thanks for your kind words @JoelBonet.

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JoelBonetR 🥇

You're welcome!

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Shshank

Thanks for sharing. Never knew this. Bookmarking for future reference.

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Most welcome @shshank

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Dewang Shah

Thanks for sharing! I was planning to move away from GA and didn't know about umami.
The heroku free option for Postgres looks like it's limited to 10K rows. I didn't spot anything on the umami docs about how they log analytics. Any ideas on how much usage it can log before it runs out of space?

I don't expect it has built-in "overwrtite" functionality so one would have to go in and clear old records perhaps? Wondering how long you've been running it for and whether you've run into any such problems.

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Hey Dewang, I recently started using Umami and So Far My experience is good.
Umami does provide reset option for clearing out the old data.
Umami has FAQ section and community support umami.is/docs/faq.

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Dewang Shah

Thanks. Yeah had a look and will probably use umami but with a separate DB hosted with another provider. 10K records (max with Heroku's free option) is basically 10K hits to your site.

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Yeah, You can look for render for hosting.

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Mihail Malo

We all know what "privacy" really means: overcoming people's adblockers that prevent Google Analytics from working :v

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Ravavyr

Does anyone know if Umami has a way of filtering out bot traffic?
Can you trust the numbers it gives you?

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Sachin Chaurasiya

Not sure on this, you can read more about umami here umami.is/