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01 / EXPLORE THROUGH TIME

Timeline

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2026274 stories
Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 202 comments · 663 points · Aug 16, 2026
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data↗ niemanlab.org · HN · 80 comments · 195 points · Aug 07, 2026
Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics↗ hjerpbakk.com · HN · 10 comments · 66 points · Jul 14, 2026
Show HN: Rudel – Claude Code Session Analytics↗ github.com · HN · 86 comments · 144 points · Mar 12, 2026
Datadog, thank you for blocking us↗ deductive.ai · HN · 30 comments · 77 points · Jan 09, 2026
2025261 stories
A blog does not need “analytics”↗ thisdaysportion.com · HN · 110 comments · 110 points · Aug 30, 2025
RybbitL Open source Google Analytics replacement↗ github.com · HN · 164 comments · 362 points · May 07, 2025
Show HN: Minimalytics – a standalone minimal analytics app built on SQLite↗ github.com · HN · 12 comments · 74 points · Mar 20, 2025
Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics↗ github.com · HN · 168 comments · 348 points · Feb 13, 2025
Do cookie-free analytics need cookie banners?↗ jfagerberg.me · HN · 85 comments · 63 points · Jan 22, 2025
2024229 stories
Show HN: Vince – A self hosted alternative to Google Analytics↗ github.com · HN · 86 comments · 283 points · Nov 29, 2024
Urchin Software Corp: The unlikely origin story of Google Analytics (2016)↗ urchin.biz · HN · 57 comments · 274 points · Aug 09, 2024
Plausible Analytics: GDPR Compliance w/o Cookie Consent Banner↗ plausible.io · HN · 137 comments · 145 points · Jul 08, 2024
Posthog – open-source analytics and UX research tool↗ github.com · HN · 37 comments · 127 points · Jun 03, 2024
Tumblr and WordPress to Sell Users' Data to Train AI Tools↗ 404media.co · HN · 7 comments · 58 points · Feb 27, 2024
2023277 stories
You don't need analytics on your blog↗ blog.yossarian.net · HN · 73 comments · 67 points · Dec 24, 2023
MrBeast's analytics platform ViewStats is out in beta↗ viewstats.com · HN · 13 comments · 28 points · Dec 18, 2023
Counting Ghosts: A case for abandoning web analytics↗ pcmaffey.com · HN · 17 comments · 16 points · Sep 19, 2023
Finland is the latest EU country to crack down on Google Analytics↗ simpleanalytics.com · HN · 1 comments · 22 points · Feb 19, 2023
The IAB loves tracking users. But it hates users tracking them↗ shkspr.mobi · HN · 4 comments · 25 points · Jan 16, 2023
2022289 stories
Show HN: Adadot – analytics for better, happier developers↗ adadot.com · HN · 16 comments · 325 points · Aug 03, 2022
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics↗ gpdp.it · HN · 587 comments · 942 points · Jun 23, 2022
Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority↗ cnil.fr · HN · 1095 comments · 1172 points · Feb 10, 2022
Is Google Analytics illegal in your country?↗ isgoogleanalyticsillegal.com · HN · 236 comments · 323 points · Jan 19, 2022
Ask HN: Good open source alternatives to Google Analytics?↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 150 comments · 333 points · Jan 11, 2022
2021312 stories
What if performance advertising is just an analytics scam?↗ sparktoro.com · HN · 347 comments · 491 points · Oct 13, 2021
Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics↗ plausible.io · HN · 681 comments · 1214 points · Aug 31, 2021
Replace Google Analytics with a shell script↗ go350.com · HN · 105 comments · 275 points · Apr 18, 2021
Cohort IDs can be collected over time to create cross-site tracking IDs↗ github.com · HN · 178 comments · 397 points · Apr 15, 2021
Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast↗ casparwre.de · HN · 383 comments · 771 points · Feb 25, 2021
2020495 stories
I sold Baremetrics↗ baremetrics.com · HN · 497 comments · 818 points · Nov 10, 2020
Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics↗ umami.is · HN · 227 comments · 820 points · Aug 18, 2020
Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics↗ lwn.net · HN · 319 comments · 738 points · Jun 18, 2020
An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website↗ plausible.io · HN · 301 comments · 462 points · Apr 08, 2020
GoatCounter – Simple web statistics, with no tracking of personal data↗ goatcounter.com · HN · 136 comments · 475 points · Jan 14, 2020
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02 / CATCH UP

The conversation now

Popular stories, with attention fading over roughly two weeks.

Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers↗ news.ycombinator.com · HN · 202 comments · 663 points · Aug 16, 2026
USA Today Co., partners with Palantir to analyze audience data↗ niemanlab.org · HN · 80 comments · 195 points · Aug 07, 2026
Show HN: Open-source and AI native web analytics↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 10 points · Aug 14, 2026
Using self-hosted Umami for iOS app analytics↗ hjerpbakk.com · HN · 10 comments · 66 points · Jul 14, 2026
Show HN: Gnat – self-hosted analytics as a single Go binary with MCP server↗ github.com · HN · 1 comments · 5 points · Aug 14, 2026

03 / GO DEEPER

Follow your curiosity

Find a particular story, revisit a year, or see what resonated.

Highest rated · the last 30 days

Show HN: Revliu – Multi-touch attribution from acquisition to revenue↗ revliu.com · HN · 0 comments · 4 points · Sep 09, 2026
Free calculators, no tracking client-side↗ getutilary.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 19, 2026
Show HN: Plainoldanalytics: Analytics Middlware for Go↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 13, 2026
We rebuilt the old Google Analytics on top of GA4's data↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Sep 08, 2026
Google Analytics MCP Server↗ developers.google.com · HN · 0 comments · 3 points · Aug 31, 2026
Umami Analytics has an MCP now↗ umamiengine.com · HN · 0 comments · 2 points · Sep 20, 2026
Show HN: Deferred deep linking and referral attribution you self-host↗ github.com · HN · 0 comments · 2 points · Sep 19, 2026
Mova: Movement Analytics Platform↗ omid.al · HN · 0 comments · 2 points · Sep 18, 2026
The Neon back end is GA↗ neon.com · HN · 0 comments · 2 points · Sep 17, 2026
We Benchmark Analytics Agents, this explains how↗ benchouse.ai · HN · 1 comments · 2 points · Sep 15, 2026

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