OpenLabs has introduced OpenAnalytics, an open-source web analytics platform focused on privacy and self-hosting. The platform collects page views, custom events, and website performance metrics.

The system stores events and rollups in ClickHouse. In OpenAnalytics, the query gateway, a service that reads from ClickHouse, verifies signed request packages.

The platform uses no cookies, browser fingerprinting, or cross-site identifiers. The system does not store raw IP addresses.

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  • OpenLabs has introduced OpenAnalytics, an open-source web analytics platform focused on privacy and self-hosting. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Open-source, privacy-first web analytics. One lightweight tracker script, no cookies, no cross-site profiles, aggregate-only reads — self-hostable on your own hardware under AGPL-3.0.»)
  • OpenAnalytics collects page views, custom events, and website performance metrics. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «What it does, in one list: page views, custom and attribute-driven events, sessions, web vitals, funnels, per-site retention, embeddable widgets, public share links, revenue analytics from your Stripe account, CSV/JSON import and export, an MCP server, and a CLI.»)
  • The system stores events and rollups in ClickHouse. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «Stores: Postgres (control plane), ClickHouse (events and rollups), Valkey ×2 (one durable event queue, one losable realtime cache).»)
  • In OpenAnalytics, the query gateway is the only process allowed to read data from ClickHouse and it verifies signed request packages. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «ClickHouse is reachable only through the query gateway, which verifies Ed25519-signed query envelopes minted by the api.»)
  • OpenAnalytics uses no cookies, browser fingerprinting, or cross-site identifiers, and it does not store raw IP addresses. (confirmed by the publication itself: evidence; «No cookies, no fingerprinting, no cross-site identifiers. Visitor identity is a daily-rotating salted hash; raw IP addresses are never stored.»)

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