1748 stars · Apache-2.0 (named in the About sidebar) · no releases at all, anywhere; the project is proved current only by its code date of 2025-12-03, read from the mirror · Track this in Scout
A small, cookie-free visitor counter with its own dashboard, which can be run on a machine you control.
Radar check
What we found when we opened it. Every bar is one fact, with its date.
Last code pushed 3 Dec 2025, 10 months before this check.
Latest release v0.0.19 on 1 Dec 2025.
Public since May 2024, a little over 2 years.
1,748 stars and 116 forks.
0 commits and 0 new issues in the last 90 days.
9 contributors. No pull requests merged in 90 days; changes go in directly. A small team carries it.
A security policy says how to report a problem. No published security advisories.
How the bars are scored
- Alive. Days since the last code push: a week or less 100, a month 90, three months 70, six months 50, a year 30, eighteen months 15, older 0.
- Releases. Age of the latest GitHub release, on a similar scale; no bar when the project publishes no releases.
- Maturity. Age of the project: eight years 100, five 90, three 70, two 55, one 40, six months 25, younger 10.
- Adoption. Stars on a log scale: 100,000 stars is 100, 10,000 is 80, 1,000 is 60, 100 is 40.
- Activity. Commits in the last 90 days: 300 or more 100, 100 85, 30 65, 10 45, any 25.
- Community. People who have contributed: 100 or more 100, 30 80, 10 60, 5 40, 2 25, one 10.
- Security. A published security policy 80, none 40; published advisories are listed, not scored.
Checked by Repo Radar on 26 Oct 2026 from the repository on GitHub. Covered in Edition 62.
▶Repo detailsthe review · specs · pros & cons · install
What it does
One line of script in the page, or a small installed library, reports a visit. It records page views, visitors who have not been seen before, and how many people are on the site right now. Custom events can be sent with extra details attached, so a sign-up or a download can be counted as well as a page. The results appear on a single dashboard, which also offers written summaries generated from the numbers. It can be installed with a script tag or from a package manager, and it can be run with Docker or used as a hosted service. It is not a full product-analytics system: there is no funnel analysis, no session replay and no experiment framework, and the project does not claim any of those.
Why it matters
Who it suits. Anyone running a small site who wants to know roughly how many people arrive and from where, and who does not want to hand that record to an advertising company. The cookie-free design is the practical part, because a cookie banner is a real cost in both annoyance and compliance work. Skip it if the question is which of fourteen steps people abandon, because that needs a heavier tool.
Verdict. Worth an hour if small and simple is what you want, and read this paragraph before you commit. The licence is plain Apache-2.0. The code is current enough to qualify and no more: the last commit landed on 3 December 2025, about eleven months before this edition, and the repository has 405 commits and no tagged releases at all. That is a small project moving slowly, not an abandoned one, and the distinction matters — nothing here is broken. Still, eleven months is eleven months, and anyone choosing a counter they intend to keep for years should weigh that against the better-known alternatives, several of which this report has covered before. One more thing from the project's own pricing page: self-hosting is free, but scaling past a certain number of client seats is pointed at a paid plan.
- No cookies, so no banner and far less to explain to a visitor.
- One line of script is the whole installation on the site itself.
- Plain Apache-2.0, with the self-hosted version genuinely free.
- The last code landed in December 2025, about eleven months ago.
- No tagged releases at all, so there is no version to pin to.
- No funnel analysis, no session replay and no experiments. Three open issues and five open pull requests, which is a small project by any measure.
matomo-org/matomo21.9k stars, GPL-3.0, covered in Edition 36; the long-established self-hosted option, far larger and far heavier.
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Swetrix/swetrix1.2k stars, AGPL-3.0, covered in Edition 53; a cookie-free counter with error tracking too, and more features held back for its hosted service.
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npm install litlyx-js
