Pirsch Analytics Reviews

1. Zep Fietje

   over 3 years ago

   After trying many analytics tools, only Pirsch met my needs. Pirsch is the most complete, beautiful and affordable analytics solution out there.

   🏁 Competitors: Fathom Analytics, Plausible.io

   👍 Pros:    Beautiful ui|Nice ux|Powerful events functionality

DEV.to Reviews

1. jorge

   · CEO at Escuela de Formación Técnica Chile SPA · over 6 years ago
   It is a nice mini-blog, it's for free and such but

   As a mini-blog, it is a nice alternative for Medium to publish and share information about programming.

   However, the community and the organization are biased toward social justice (and they are open to it). You can read its Code of Conduct, it is so vague and politically leads (I prefer a term of service because it defines fair rules for everybody). So it alienates developers that we don't care about politics in pro of people that want to talk about any other topic such as sexuality, how women are unprivileged, and such. It even mandates to use inclusive language. Good grief.

   My main complaint is the quality of the community. It is not StackOverflow (so we don't want to ask for an answer here), and most of the top topics are clickbait, such as "how to become a rockstar developer in ... days", "100 tips to become a better programmer" (and it doesn't even talk about programming).

   Technically this "mini blog" site allows us to use markdown, and it is okay. However, the whole experience is really basic. Even the template is ugly.

   🏁 Competitors: Medium

   👍 Pros:    Free

   👎 Cons:    Social justice|Basic features|Quality of content

Pirsch Analytics mentions (29)

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026)

  - And much more It feels kinda crazy that I've been working on this project for more than 5 years now and it's still exciting :) [0] https://github.com/pirsch-analytics/pirsch (v7 is the new branch) [1] https://pirsch.io/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago

• Umami is a simple, fast, privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics

  You can find a nice list of privacy-respecting analytics tools on European Alternatives [0], including mine, Pirsch [1]. I've been in this space for ~3 1/2 years, so if you have any questions, please let me know :) [0] https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-services [1] https://pirsch.io. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Hetzner Object Storage

  We've been using Hetzner for years for Pirsch [0] now, and so far we had a great experience. I migrated all of our data from AWS S3 to their new object storage without issues. We only use it for user pictures and small files (white-labeling logos and such). This is one of the rare cases where AWS is actually cheaper for us. It's probably more worth it if you have a lot of data. The only thing we're missing now is... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

  I've been running Pirsch [0] on Hetzner Cloud for 3 1/2 years now on a self-hosted HashiCorp Nomad cluster. It has been super stable and very cost-effective. The Hetzner VMs are really cheap and a lot more capable at the same time. You can find everything on our blog article [1]. In front of it are two Caddy load balancers, also running on VMs (Hetzner offers load balancers, but we wanted to support custom domains... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• Using Analytics on My Website

  I was also looking for server-side analytics, created my own, and now it's a product! The idea is that tracking can be done from both, a JS snippet (for easy integration) and an API. Both rely on fingerprinting and almost provide the same set of features. The API just lacks screen resolution. The method is GDPR (and CCPA and whatnot) compliant. Original article:... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

DEV.to mentions (662)

• Your first Fitz LiveViews component, twice: SSR and WASM from one source

  In part 1 I made the pitch: real-time UI in one language, no JavaScript build. Now let's build something and ship it two ways from the same source. - Source: dev.to / 6 days ago

• My Comment-Reply Queue Draft One Reply to a Thread and It Went Deaf to Every Follow-Up After That

  Def pending(): try: drafted_text = open(DRAFTS, encoding="utf-8").read() except FileNotFoundError: drafted_text = "" drafted_codes = set(re.findall(r"^## (\S+)", drafted_text, re.M)) out = [] for a in api(f"/articles?username={ME}&per_page=100"): if not a["comments_count"]: continue for c in api(f"/comments?a_id={a['id']}"): if not... - Source: dev.to / 10 days ago

• Domain Search to Render: How the web works behind the scenes

  To think that all of this happens under the hood when I’m just trying to access YouTube to listen to my favorite music playlists to go through the day is insane! It all happens so quickly… to think that all eleven of these steps occur instantly when I was first entering a website like https://dev.to, for instance, is mind-blowing. - Source: dev.to / 11 days ago

• Enjoy the Bubble While It Lasts: The Secret Behind Your AI Bill

  And keep an exit. This is the argument I made about small models from a different angle: the same task that costs $14,000/month at frontier scale often costs approximately nothing on a 4B model running on your own hardware. Not for everything - for the long tail of focused, repetitive work that makes up most of what we actually automate. Knowing which of your workflows would survive a 10x price increase is cheap... - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago

• From Full-Stack Developer to Tech Lead: Lessons I Learned the Hard Way

  P.S originally it was only daily.dev. Now it is (dev.to)[https://dev.to] as well! - Source: dev.to / 15 days ago