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

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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 / 25 days 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

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