1.2k stars · AGPL-3.0 · tracker-node@3.5.0 (2026-09-26), read from /releases/latest; '26 Sep' with no year, and that date has already passed this year · Track this in Scout
Website analytics with no cookies, plus performance monitoring and error tracking, which you can host yourself.
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What it does
You add a small script to a site and Swetrix records visits, countries, devices, where the traffic came from and the UTM campaign tags on the links. On top of the basic counting it supports custom events, sessions, funnels, performance monitoring and error tracking, and it exports to CSV with a developer API beside it. It uses no cookies and does no cross-device tracking, which is the reason there is no consent banner. The self-hosted Community Edition runs from a Docker Compose file with ClickHouse, a database built for this kind of counting, and Redis behind it. The current release is tracker-node@3.5.0, from 26 September 2026, under AGPL-3.0. The project states its boundary clearly: session replays, revenue, experiments and AI features are cloud-only, alerts and email reports are not in the Community Edition, the network breakdown needs a paid geolocation database, and new features reach the hosted service first.
Why it matters
Who it suits. Anyone running a site in Europe who would rather not argue about cookie banners, and anyone who wants the visitor numbers to stay on a machine they control. The error tracking and performance monitoring make it a reasonable single tool for a small site that would otherwise run two. Skip it if you need session replays or email reports, because those are not in the free edition.
Verdict. Worth an evening, and the honest feature list is the reason it is in this edition rather than one of the dozen alternatives. Every open-core project holds something back; few write the list down. Set against the field: umami-software/umami at 39.4k stars and MIT, which was Edition 1, is simpler and keeps nothing back; rybbit-io/rybbit at 12.6k stars and AGPL-3.0, Edition 33, is the closest match in ambition; plausible/community-edition at 2.9k stars and MIT, Edition 18, is the lightest to run. Choose Swetrix when you want the error tracking in the same place as the visit counts.
- No cookies and no cross-device tracking, so there is no consent banner to build.
- Visits, funnels, performance and error tracking in one program instead of three.
- The README states precisely what the free edition does not include, which makes the decision easy.
- ClickHouse and Redis are a heavier stack than a small analytics tool usually needs; budget real memory for it.
- Session replays, revenue, experiments, alerts and email reports are cloud-only or absent from the Community Edition.
- The detailed network breakdown needs a paid geolocation database; the bundled free one gives country, region and city only.
umami-software/umamiCookie-free visitor analytics, MIT, simpler and lighter, with no features held back for a hosted plan.
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rybbit-io/rybbitSelf-hostable web and product analytics under AGPL-3.0, aiming at the same breadth with a larger community.
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plausible/community-editionA Docker Compose setup for the self-hosted Plausible build, MIT, the lightest of these to put up and keep running.
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git clone https://github.com/swetrix/selfhosting cd selfhosting ./configure.sh docker compose up -d
