Why I use this opensource tool for my analytics
I've dabbled in self hosting my blog on and off for years.
Something that i never really felt was where I wanted it was light site stats. I had no interest in paying for this functionality, or giving big brother Google any of my data.
When I landed on Ghost, they did not have the partnership with Tinybird yet, so I started to dig.
I finally found Umami
Out the gate i was really impressed on how easy it is to get going.
Once I set up my site, it gave me a simple script to add to the site. Once done, I could see all the goodies I was after.
Today I've dug into UTMs and campaigns to get some more insights on linking.
I'm just a stats nerd and don't really have any reason to do this other than that, but it sure is fun to watch the funnels and journeys people take.
Having this data self hosted and the data housed on my own homelab feels so much more satisfying. We already give so much information to big tech, anything i can pull in house feels like a tiny victory.