vince

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Vince is a self hosted alternative to Google Analytics.

Features

• Automatic TLS native support for let's encrypt.
• Drop in replacement for plausible you can use existing plausible scripts and just point them to the vince instance (note that vince is lean and only covers features for a single entity self hosting, so it is not our goal to be feature parity with plausible).
• Outbounds links tracking
• File download tracking
• 404 page tracking
• Custom event tracking
• Time period comparison
• Public dashboards allow access to the dashoard to anyone(by default all dashboards are private).
• Unique shared access generate unique links to dahboards that can be password protected.
• Zero Dependency: Ships a single binary with everything in it. No runtime dependency.
• Easy to operate: One line commandline flags with env variables is all you need.
• Unlimited sites: There is no limit on how many sites you can manage.
• Unlimited events: scale according to availbale resources.
• Privacy friendly: No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR.

Installation

Vince ships a single executable without any dependencies.

Installing

MacOS and Linux

curl -fsSL https://vinceanalytics.com/install.sh | bash

Docker

docker pull ghcr.io/vinceanalytics/vince

Helm

❯ helm repo add vince http://vinceanalytics.com/charts
❯ helm install vince vince/vince

Download

see release page

Checking installation

vince --version

Start vince

create admin

❯ vince admin --name acme --password 1234

start server

❯ vince serve                            
2024/10/23 15:32:08 [JOB 1] WAL file vince-data/pebble/000002.log with log number 000002 stopped reading at offset: 124; replayed 1 keys in 1 batches
2024/10/23 15:32:08 INFO starting event processing loop
2024/10/23 15:32:08 INFO starting server addr=:8080

Comparison with Plausible Analytics

feature	vince	plausible
Entrerprise features	❌	✅
Hosted offering	❌	✅
Multi tenant	❌	✅
Funnels	❌	✅
Goals Conversion	✅	✅
Unique visitors	✅	✅
Total visits	✅	✅
Page views	✅	✅
Views per visit	✅	✅
Visit duration	✅	✅
Breakdown by Cities, Sources, Pages and Devices	✅	✅
Self Hosted	✅	✅
<1KB script	✅	✅
No Cookies(GDPR, PECR compliant)	✅	✅
100% data ownershiip	✅	✅
Unique shared access to stats	✅	✅
Outbound links tracking	✅	✅
File download tracking	✅	✅
404 page tracking	✅	✅
Time period comparisons	✅	✅
Unlimited sites	✅	❌
Unlimited events	✅	❌
Zero dependency	✅	❌ (needs elixir, clickhouse, postgresql ...etc)
Automatic TLS	✅	❌

Credit

Plausible Analytics : vince started as a Go port of plausible with a focus on self hosting.

Note from Author

My name is Geofrey Ernest, a senior software engineer based in Arusha, Tanzania.

vince is a result of 3 years of research on how to apply Compressed Roaring Bitmap Indexes on web analytics events to achieve storage efficiency and supreme query speeds.

I am currently looking for fulltime remote work, and I'm struggling because Remote now seems to mean Remote US and Remote EU and I'm stuck here in Tanzania. If you are a hiring manager please give me a shot, I promise you won't regret it.