Open Source Web Services Software

GoatCounter is an open-source web analytics platform available as a hosted service (free for non-commercial use) or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy-to-use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo. Privacy-aware; doesn’t track users with unique identifiers and doesn't need a GDPR notice. Fine-grained control over which data is collected. Also see the privacy policy and GDPR consent notices. Lightweight and fast; adds just ~3.5KB of extra data to your site. Also has JavaScript-free "tracking pixel" option, or you can use it from your application's middleware or import from logfiles. Keeps useful statistics such as browser information, location, and screen size. Keep track of referring sites and campaigns. Easy; if you've been confused by the myriad of options and flexibility of Google Analytics and Matomo that you don't need then GoatCounter will be a breath of fresh air.

Plausible is lightweight and open-source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure. Frustrated with Google Analytics? So are we and that's why we built Plausible Analytics, a simple, lightweight (< 1 KB), open source, and privacy-friendly alternative that doesn't come from the adtech world. Web analytics went from a simple, fun and useful practice for site owners to a data-grabbing machine for surveillance capitalism. Google Analytics is frustrating to use, difficult to understand, slow to load and privacy-invasive too. Plausible Analytics is built for privacy-conscious site owners. You get valuable and actionable stats to help you improve your efforts while your visitors keep having a nice and enjoyable experience. Plausible is simple analytics. It is easy to understand and it cuts through the noise.

Web service acts as an authorizer for other web services. It takes other service's name, client's IP address, number of requests and a key as input via GET HTTP request. It produces XML output saying is client authorized to use requested service.