Open Web Analytics

Self-hosted web analytics platform for tracking website traffic without compromising user privacy.

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Open Web Analytics (OWA) is an open-source alternative to commercial analytics tools like Google Analytics. It gives you complete control over the data you collect about your website or application usage, ensuring privacy compliance and data ownership.

OWA provides comprehensive tracking capabilities including page views, click tracking, heatmaps, and e-commerce analytics. It can be easily integrated with popular content management systems like WordPress and MediaWiki, or used as a standalone tracking solution for any website.

With OWA, your analytics data stays on your own servers, eliminating concerns about third-party data sharing and ensuring compliance with privacy regulations like GDPR. The platform is built on PHP and MySQL, making it easy to deploy on most web hosting environments.

License

GPL-2.0

Self hostable

Yes

Repository details

Version

1.8.1

Created

4/1/2012

Stars

2660

Forks

484

Open issues

117

Last commit

2/28/2026

Updated 4/18/2026, 6:20:56 AM

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