Umami
One clean dashboard, no cookies, five minutes to deploy.
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sovereigntyUmami is deliberately small: page views, referrers, countries, devices and events on a single readable dashboard, with no cookies, no personal data and a script around two kilobytes. It runs on Node with Postgres or MySQL and deploys in minutes. MIT, about 38k stars. It is the honest recommendation for a large number of teams who believe they need product analytics and actually need to know which pages people read and where they came from — and the tracking script being 2 KB rather than 45 KB is a real difference on a phone.
OPEN SOURCEMITSELF-HOSTLOCAL-FIRST
LicenseMIT
PricingFree and open source to self-host. Umami Cloud has a free tier and paid plans.
Open sourceYes
Self-hostableYes
Local-first dataYes
What it does well
- +Genuinely simple — one dashboard, no training required
- +No cookies and no personal data, so no consent banner
- +Roughly 2 KB script, a meaningful page-speed win on mobile
- +MIT with no enterprise carve-out
Where it falls short
- −No funnels, cohorts or retention analysis worth the name
- −Not a product-analytics tool — do not expect it to be
- −No session replay or heatmaps
- −Small feature surface by design; you will outgrow it if you need depth
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