It has it’s own faults as it’s not a perfect product yet.
But check out https://www.usertrack.net/
It’s paid (one time) but it’s self-hosted and it has more expensive features like heatmaps, recordings and A/B tests (I didnt try the A/B tests yet)
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Great suggestions! Thanks! 
I just installed the Matomo WP plugin for their site right now. Will dig more into it later, and probably setup my own server (one of the mentioned ones) for other sites as well. 
another open source choice
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CloudFlare have just announced their privacy-first analytics platform. You do not need to use CloudFlare’s DNS to utilize this, and it’s totally free:
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Let’s add a link to this new Plausible Analytics topic
here: https://hostballs.com/t/how-to-self-host-plausible-analytics-guide
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Thanks for recommending userTrack!
It has it’s own faults as it’s not a perfect product yet.
I agree, I have a lot of improvements planned but could you let me know what are the biggest problems you encountered so far?
I did try their Microsoft Clairty demo but their heatmaps/recordings were bugged and with a strange/hard UI. Even now, if I try to play a recording on the demo dashboard the playback is empty, it seems to be in an early alpha stage.
I wouldn’t personally recommend anyone to add a free 3rd party session tracking script, especially when it’s sending data to Microsoft. Also keep in mind that they don’t offer full analytics, only qualitative data.
Heh, I was thinking, wasn’t there a thread on this topic, searched and found that I actually started the topic 
I’ve been running both Matomo and Koko on WP (I find Motomo to be a bit heavy, otherwise both are fine).
Testing standalone self-hosted analytics at the moment, testing Umami, Plausible Analytics and Shynet. (Did also test Ackee, but that was too limited. I need multiple users and domains.)
Now my problem is that I can’t decide which one to pick. 
Maybe Umami, but Plausible has some more details. Umami is lighter. Shynet is also quite light on resources (using Django/Python, it seems).
The mentioned userTrack looks interesting. But not sure, as it’s quite an investment … (Most of my clients are non-profits and individuals, and not profitable companies.)
Being PHP maybe I could just host it in a shared environment, at MyRoot.pw, or such … 
(Do you know if that would work, @SGraf ?)
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For WP installations, I install Koko for all of my clients. For anything else, Plausible is amazing 
Yes, Plausible looks nice. Not sure how to track events (plan on checking it out). Tried events in Umami, but didn’t work, it seems. 
In Umami I can create a share URL for each domain, though. That seems nice, but not sure how important it is.
One customer of mine might want to integrate analytics with Google Search Console.
Anyone tried that with any of these options?
Hi @flips,
Which pricing is too high? For the Personal license or the Agency license? What would a “fair” price be for you?
If you have WordPress, I also created a simpler, cheaper version of it, which now has a lifetime deal running as it has been recently released: https://wplytic.com
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Cool. The navigation menu does not open for me on mobile by the way. Perhaps you forgot to load a script?
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On WPLytic? Yeah, it’s bugged currently, there is not much there anyway (you are right that some scripts were removed). The extra links were just Docs and Roadmap.
I will probably remove the burger menu entirely instead of fixing it: Stop Using Hamburger Menus
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Even Personal is a bit high for my use/customer base. But I need multiuser, så I’d need the more expensive version. And those prices not being lifetime (have to upgrade with next major version?) … Anyways, main extra over wplytic being heatmaps, A/B testing etc?
That wplytic price was more affordable, puts it within reach. Running in WP makes for easier auto-upgrades, I guess. If that version can have different users checking/administering different domain, it’s interesting.
Best arguments for wplytic vs. Umami/Plausible?
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 
(Most of my customers pay me like $6-$12 per year…)
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?
You become one of the nonprofits I support locally …
(My business is totally a side thing I do to help those, more than anything.)
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