trypostit/trypost 💎 hidden gem
Schedules and publishes social posts to thirteen networks from a machine of your own, with the programmable interface in the free code.
aptabase/aptabase 💎 hidden gem
Simple, privacy-first usage figures for phone, desktop and web apps, run on hardware you control.
GoogleChrome/lighthouse
Loads one web page in a real browser, runs about a hundred checks, and prints a scored report on speed, accessibility and search readiness.
milesmcc/shynet
Self-hosted visitor counting that works from the server's own records, with no cookies.
offen/offen
Visitor counting where each visitor's own data is encrypted and they can read or delete it themselves.
matomo-org/matomo
Website visitor reporting that runs on your own hosting, with the data in your own database.
rybbit-io/rybbit
Self-hosted website and product analytics with funnels, retention, session replay and error tracking, and no cookies.
arp242/goatcounter
Web analytics that records a visit by hashing non-identifying details rather than storing an identifier, so it keeps no personal data and needs no cookie banner.
Lissy93/web-check
One page of about forty public facts about any web address, from hosting and certificates to email records and what a crawler sees.
sitespeedio/sitespeed.io
Measures how fast your pages really load, using real browsers, and can run the same test on a schedule.
medama-io/medama 💎 hidden gem
Counts website visitors with no cookies and no personal identifiers, in one small binary with storage built in.
ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt
A weekly-updated list of AI scrapers, shipped as ready-made rules for six web servers.
microlinkhq/metascraper 💎 hidden gem
Reads a page's title, description, image, author, date and publisher out of Open Graph, Twitter Cards, JSON-LD, Microdata, RDFa and plain HTML, in a set order of preference.
plausible/community-edition 💎 hidden gem
The self-host distribution for Plausible Analytics (the analytics engine itself lives in plausible/analytics).
elmohq/elmo 💎 hidden gem
Self-hosted AEO/GEO tracker — records whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and AI Overviews mention and cite your brand.
towfiqi/serpbear 💎 hidden gem
Self-hosted Google rank tracker — unlimited keywords, one small SQLite container, Search Console integration.
google/schema-dts 💎 hidden gem
Typed JSON-LD for the Schema.org vocabulary — structured data the compiler can check.
PostHog/posthog
Analytics, session replay, feature flags, experiments and surveys behind one snippet — four standing recommendations collapsed into one.
shlinkio/shlink
The short link in the YouTube description, and the only honest answer to 'did that video do anything?'
benvinegar/counterscale 💎 hidden gem
A Cloudflare Worker plus one Analytics Engine binding — the cheapest analytics service you can run this year.
openreplay/openreplay
Four minutes of watching one real person struggle with your product will teach you more than a month of guessing.
allinurl/goaccess
Real-time nginx log analyser — the first honest traffic numbers, from data already on the server, with no JavaScript and no consent banner.
GoogleChrome/web-vitals
~3 KB of JavaScript that measures Core Web Vitals on real visits — the field data behind Unlighthouse's and SiteOne's lab scores.
Pagefind/pagefind
Static search with no server and no per-query bill — and, if the queries are captured, the highest-intent keyword data he will ever have.
umami-software/umami
Self-hosted, cookie-free website analytics — the measurement floor for every other marketing move.
inovector/mixpost
Lightweight self-hosted social scheduler — the low-RAM alternative to Postiz on a box already running two products.
growthbook/growthbook
Self-hosted feature flags and A/B tests — flags are worth it today, experiments only once traffic exists.
every-app/open-seo
Self-hostable SEO workbench (keywords, rank tracking, audits, AI visibility) with an MCP server. Free Ahrefs/Semrush alternative.
harlan-zw/unlighthouse
One command Lighthouse-scans every page of a site and ranks what to fix. npx, nothing to host.
dubinc/dub
Branded short links with click-to-signup conversion tracking — turns 'did that video work?' into a number.
gitroomhq/postiz-app
Self-hosted Buffer — schedule one piece of content to 13 platforms including YouTube, X, LinkedIn, Reddit.
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