A lightweight, open-source website analytics tool that prioritizes user privacy and provides basic traffic insights with minimal personal data collection.
PixiTracker is an open-source web analytics platform that aims to provide website owners with basic traffic analytics while preserving visitor privacy. It was created as an alternative to more complex commercial platforms like Google Analytics that collect large amounts of user data.
As an open-source tool, PixiTracker places a strong emphasis on transparency - the code is publicly available for anyone to inspect. It aims to collect only minimal visitor information to generate aggregated usage statistics and trends for a website.
Specifically, PixiTracker offers website owners data on overall website views, unique visitors, landing pages, referral sources, and more. It generates user-friendly graphs and visualizations to display trends over custom time periods. Data is fully owned and controlled by the website owner.
Unlike some tools, PixiTracker does not use cookies and limits fingerprinting or visitor tracking. The only personal data that is briefly collected is the visitor's IP address, user agent, and referer header - but these are quickly anonymized. This makes it a good analytics choice for privacy-focused websites.
As an open source tool, PixiTracker is free to use and can be self-hosted. It has a simple automated installation process. While it lacks some advanced ecommerce features of commercial rivals, it provides core traffic analytics in a privacy-centric manner.