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Paul Jarvis

Fathom Analytics PRO - Simple, privacy-focused website analytics

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The same popular Fathom Analytics platform that was only available via our repo on GitHub is now available as a hosted option!

It's the same open-source software, but entirely managed by us on our cloud network with servers falling under Europe's strong privacy laws.

With Fathom PRO, you just need to plug in our tracking snippet to get started.

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Adriaan
Great timing @pjrvs πŸ˜‰Earlier today I launched Simple Analytics
Paul Jarvis
Maker
@harianus imagine our surprise when we had today on our calendar for a month and noticed your launch 🧐 since you’re already a fathom user, you knew our launch was coming, what our tagline was, and how we were marketing it (simple + privacy focused)...
Austin Ginder
Do paid accounts work for multiple websites? If so, is there a limit to the number of sites added per paid account?
Danny
Maker
@austinginder Hey Austin, I was actually just adding the info on that as it was the #1 thing people were asking. We definitely plan on tracking multiple websites from a single Fathom instance (in both Fathom PRO and the self-hosted version) but have not gotten to it just yet as we were building out our hosted offering. It's pretty much next on our list now!
Hugo Villain
Do you plan to add querying through API? I'm interested in showing to my users how many people viewed their pages
Paul Jarvis
Maker
@hypervillain it's a great idea and on our roadmap (link on the sales site). i'd love to do the same eventually πŸ˜‰
Hugo Villain
@pjrvs Oh right, I can't vote for API but please count my vote in! My team and I would be interested on day 1 πŸ™Œ
Paul Jarvis
Maker
@hypervillain noted and i just gave my vote for this too πŸ‘
Danny
Maker
@hypervillain Just wanted to add that API access for outside applications is definitely on the list and most likely something that will end up in Fathom in the near future already. The current dashboard is a client-side React application that consumes the API so we'd love to open up that same API for other applications too. πŸ˜ƒ
Jarrod Drysdale
Paul and Danny proved their commitment to privacy by open sourcing the entire app so you can see exactly how it works and what data is stored. What other analytics service would do this? None. If you care about privacy, this is the only real option.
Jason Zook

I'm not an analytics guru. I don't love logging into Google Analytics. I'm a content creator who wants to see how many people visit my site, what pages they visit, and where people are coming from. I've been using GoSquared for years and appreciate how they put the most important analytics front and center (and hide all the confusing and not important stuff). But, paying $99/mo for GoSquared is too much for what I need. Really excited to have Fathom to replace GoSquared and keep me from having to login to Google Analytics!

Pros:

It isn't Google Analytics πŸ˜‚

Cons:

Only one site per pro account (for now!)

Philipp
I'm following the repository since I saw it on HN a while ago. Pretty excited to see the quick progress so far and always great to have one more privacy focused analytics alternative out there. The closest competitor I know (and using right now) is probably https://get.gaug.es (They also have a very slick design once you log in, the landing page is outdated) which is cheaper but not open source and on top of that not written in Go which is a plus for me personally. I'm probably going to check out the self hosted version for a while longer to see where the feature roadmap is going.
Paul Jarvis
Maker
@tehwey Thanks dewey! And yes, we're working on features for the paid version which are coming quite soon.
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thomas.io
It's always great to see new tools offering alternatives to Google. I like how Danny and Paul try to do the right things on this. Great job team!
Danny
Maker
@tompec Thanks Thomas. Appreciate that!
Justin Jackson

I'm a paying customer!

Pros:

Exactly what I need in stats - no cruft

Cons:

Only one site per account currently

Danny
Maker
Thanks for being with us this early @mijustin! For those wondering (as Justin probably knows already): we're working on being able to track more than one site from a single Fathom dashboard. It's top priority for us now that we got the hosted offering out the door.
BoΕ‘tjan Bregar
Great alternative to Google tools. The interface is handy. Congrats to the team. Will continue exploring it.😊
Coen Jacobs

This is what the world needs, in a moment of time where privacy isn't promoted as a unique selling point. Fathom does. Privacy friendly, high performing analytics, created by really smart and likable people.

Pros:

Easy to install, high performance code that is well written by a couple of really smart people. πŸ’―

Cons:

Early days, so it needs a few more features for it to actually compete with the big boys.

Danny
Maker
Thank you Coen, for your nice comment. We're chipping away on our long list of features to add or improve upon on a daily basis, so hopefully we'll be able to compete with the big boys soon enough!
Barry Kooij

I like the approach Fathom has taken on analytics. By focusing on privacy I can now move away my statistics from a big company like Google but it also respects the privacy of my website's visitors. On top of that the reports load so quickly I initially felt like something wasn't working correctly!

Pros:

Great performance in loading reports (seriously fast), heavy focus on privacy.

Cons:

Product is still 'new'(ish), hasn't been tested in large scale yet.

Simon Schmid
Very much looking forward to try, and congrats on continued shipping @pjrvs @dannyvankooten
Rob Sobers
Only crucial element that's missing (for me) is channel / source breakdown based on UTM params. Beautifully simple interface. Most of GA's reports are terrible.
Paul Jarvis
Maker
@rsobers I agree, and it's been on our roadmap for a while, because it'd be useful. see: https://trello.com/b/x2aBwH2J/fa...
bee
It's really good! [I love it](https://google.com]