usefathom/fathom
Fathom
Fathom is a privacy-focused website analytics server written in Go. It monitors website traffic and page views without collecting personal data or using intrusive cookies, providing a self-hosted alternative for traffic monitoring.
The system utilizes a Preact-based dashboard interface for visualizing traffic patterns and reports. Data is persisted in a SQL database analytics store, with support for MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
The project covers the collection of visitor data via lightweight tracking snippets and the management of that data through a pluggable storage layer. It includes mechanisms for filtering referrer spam by blocking known fraudulent domains.
Features
- Website Analytics - Ships a complete system for monitoring visitor behavior and page views across websites.
- Self-Hosted Analytics Platforms - Provides a fully self-hosted analytics platform for users to maintain complete control over their visitor data.
- Event Analytics - Implements a server-side system for collecting and processing user interaction and event data.
- Privacy-Focused Analytics - Implements a privacy-focused analytics system that avoids personal data collection and intrusive cookies.
- Analytics Tracking - Provides instrumentation for tracking website page views and visitor navigation patterns.
- Tracking Snippets - Provides lightweight JavaScript snippets for embedding on web pages to capture visitor traffic.
- Analytics Data Stores - Provides a data persistence layer supporting MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite for storing visitor metrics.
- Database Abstraction Layers - Implements a unified API layer allowing the analytics server to work across multiple SQL database dialects.
- Referrer Spam Filtering - Filters out fraudulent traffic by comparing referrers against a database of known spammer domains.
- Referrer Spam Filtering - Blocks fraudulent traffic from analytics reports using a list of known spammer domains.
- Backend Runtimes - Utilizes a compiled Go runtime to efficiently handle high-concurrency HTTP requests for analytics events.
- Virtual DOM Implementations - Employs a Preact-based virtual DOM implementation to render a high-performance analytics dashboard.
- Web Dashboards - Ships a graphical web-based dashboard for visualizing website traffic patterns and reports.
- Analytics - Lightweight, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
- Analytics Platforms - Simple, privacy-focused website analytics built with Go.
- Analytics Tools - Listed in the “Analytics Tools” section of the Awesome Selfhosted awesome list.
- Data Analysis - Website analytics tool.
- Databases & Data - Privacy-focused website analytics.
- Privacy Focused Analytics - Lightweight, self-hosted analytics without personal data tracking.
- Web Analytics - Simple, privacy-oriented website analytics.
