Free and/or self hosted alternative to Google Analytics?

Hi Flips,

I understand, $149 is indeed a lifetime license (you can use the platform for years, plus that is already less than $13/month even if you use it for a year only). If you want to upgrade in the future to a new version, the upgrade pricing is a lot cheaper than a license and it’s completely optional.

Yes, WPLytic is a stripped-down version of UXWizz, without Session Recordings, Heatmaps and A/B tests.

If that version can have different users checking/administering different domain

The current version (early-bird) of WPLytic does indeed come with multi-domain and multi-user support.

Best arguments for wplytic vs. Umami/Plausible?

For WordPress, I don’t think either can run on the WordPress stack (e.g. if they have a WP plugin, it’s just a tracking script to send data to a different server). WPLytic is first-party and runs on the same stack as WordPress, so it is 100% self-hosted and runs on the same server, without sending the data to any external destination.

Apart from this, I would say WPLytic has more complex features (comparing user segments, per session stats, events and tagging system, etc.).

But for both WPLytic and UXWizz, I would say the biggest advantage is the self-hosted-first mentality. My goal is to make both as good as possible and as easy to install and run as possible. Other platforms that monetize through their cloud offering don’t want self-hosting to be “too easy”, as that would simply mean customers won’t have a reason to pay and they would be their own competition…

Thanks for the reply :+1: :slight_smile: (Most of my customers pay me like $6-$12 per year…) :sweat_smile:
The $149 licence, it’s not multi-user, IIRC?

I have one client that actually pays me a bit more than peanuts. I’m not sure if they want to migrate away from GA, but if they are, they would want integration with Google Search Console. Is that possible somehow?

Well, to be honest, that is the problem with this match. $12 per year is rarely sustainable for any company/service, unless it upsells some other things. It barely covers the transaction, accounting and management cost for one customer. UXWizz is either intended for personal use (website owners) , companies (that have a medium-sized business and more people need access to the analytics) and web agencies (where normally you will earn a profit by adding UXWizz as an extra service for your customers that you can charge extra for).

The Personal ($149) license is indeed single-user, the Company one ($399) is multi-user and the Agency one comes with white-label and some extra scaling features.

they would want integration with Google Search Console

In my experience, it’s best to use GSC directly as they provide an optimized UI for their specific data. That being said, I am considering adding a GSC integration in the future.

With all that being said, almost all UXWizz customers were happy with their purchase, as it’s one of those platforms that provides so much, that not only it saves you money (for having to pay for Plausible, then Hotjar, then some A/B testing or events platform), but it also provides all that in a simple-to-use interface (that is A LOT faster and simpler than Google Analytics for example).

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Ooh. That’s too cheap. Where do I sign up?

:sweat_smile: You become one of the nonprofits I support locally … :laughing:
(My business is totally a side thing I do to help those, more than anything.)

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