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Piwik vs Ackee (Analytics): What are the differences?
Piwik: The ultimate open source alternative to Google Analytics. Piwik is a full featured PHP MySQL software program that you download and install on your own webserver. Piwik aims to be a Free software alternative to Google Analytics, and is already used on more than 1,000,000 websites. Privacy is built-in!; Ackee (Analytics): Self-hosted, Node.js based analytics tool for those who care about privacy. It is a lightweight, easy to install and has a good balance between analytics and privacy. It features an API and web interface and tracks only what's necessary.
Piwik and Ackee (Analytics) can be categorized as "General Analytics" tools.
Some of the features offered by Piwik are:
- Real time data updates
- Customizable Dashboard
- All Websites Dashboard
On the other hand, Ackee (Analytics) provides the following key features:
- Self-hosted
- Lightweight and easy to install
- Modern and fast architecture
Piwik and Ackee (Analytics) are both open source tools. Piwik with 12.1K GitHub stars and 1.86K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than Ackee (Analytics) with 903 GitHub stars and 35 GitHub forks.
Pros of Ackee (Analytics)
- Self-hosted1
- Minimal and focused interface1
- Alternative to Google Analytics1
- Free and open-source1
- Privacy focused1
Pros of Piwik
- It's good to have an alternative to google analytics35
- Self-hosted27
- Easy setup10
- Not blocked by Brave2
- Great customs0
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Cons of Ackee (Analytics)
Cons of Piwik
- Hard to export data2