[HN Gopher] Umami: Own Your Website Analytics
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       Umami: Own Your Website Analytics
        
       Author : memorable
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-05-06 13:30 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | thorncorona wrote:
       | Used to use this - liked it a lot. Great work on the design :)
        
       | Theodores wrote:
       | This looks super neat. Often I think that analytics are the wrong
       | metrics. In business you want sales, not web click metrics. If
       | you put the customer first all else follows.
       | 
       | A simpler analytics does it for me, I will give this a go.
        
         | manachar wrote:
         | Analytics measures what you want.
         | 
         | If you want sales, then you're also gonna want to evaluate the
         | sales funnel to see where friction in the online sales process
         | can be reduced, and if you're big enough do some fancier things
         | like A/B testing.
         | 
         | I will agree that a lot of people look at analytics often far
         | too divorced from their business goals. If you care about sales
         | of X, then you probably shouldn't be too invested in regularly
         | looking at most of the big site level metrics unless you're
         | trying to alter those to improve sales of X.
        
       | ipdashc wrote:
       | This looks cool, but almost exactly like https://plausible.io/,
       | even (albeit vaguely) right down to the UI...
        
       | Annatar wrote:
       | "git clone https://github.com/mikecao/umami.git
       | 
       | cd umami
       | 
       | npm install"
       | 
       | I "love it" how the author just assumes that npm will be
       | available on one's operating system of choice; because GNU/Linux
       | is the state religion anyway, and why would anyone run anything
       | else?
       | 
       | "What happens when you assume?"
       | 
       | "You make an ass out of you and me."
       | 
       | Meanwhile, OS packages of this?
       | 
       | "Which OS packages? What are OS packages? Is that something to
       | eat?"
       | 
       | Hackery, hackery everywhere... what the hell is happening to
       | humanity?
        
         | chrisux wrote:
         | What are you on about?
         | 
         | Right above this in their docs, it says:
         | 
         | Requirements
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         | * A server with Node.js 12 or newer
         | 
         | * A database (MySQL or Postgresql)
         | 
         | There is no assumption. Node comes with npm installed... Node
         | is required to use this.
         | 
         | This can be any OS that has node, no one said anything about
         | linux except you?
         | 
         | "OS" Packages is never mentioned, those are obviously node
         | packages.
        
         | wheresmycraisin wrote:
         | Npm is linux only these days?
        
         | docmechanic wrote:
         | Heresy! GNU is the only true path! Linux is the slippery slope
         | to Windoze! /s
        
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