Does it allow filtering visited page list by a specific referrer and vice verse?

Oh I like that main dashboard. Very simple.

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When I started working on vince, I thought I could bootstrap a sustainable business, that was about 3 years ago.

My dream for a business is practically dead now. That snippet is a relic of early days of vince and I will remove it.

I am currently looking for work, and will be maintaining vince as usual (I do a lot of open source stuff) since I also use it with my hobby projects.

I'm struggling finding remote roles now, since remote now means Remote US or Remote EU and I'm stuck here in Tanzania.

So, don't worry, I also use vince so I will keep hacking on it.

Thanks,

> Why protocol buffers ?

They are very good for defining API boundaries, in vince we only use them for configuration and admin structure. We use Roaring Bitmap based storage, so fundamental units persisted are Bitmap containers.

> Also why are you using pebble exactly?

Well, vince is write heavy and any LSM based key value store would have been nice. It happens pebble is the best option for us.

Also, we don't use transactions (We batch writes and use snapshots for reads). Combining with the fact we rely on pebble batch Merge api.

The merge api allows us to do efficient updates. Since we only store bitmap containers, when doing update we just do a container union of observed values of a key.

Bitmap unions are pretty fast and efficient.

I hope I covered all your questions.

Also Plausible is almost stock TailwindUI elements + including the default color, so many sites look like that.

I found a link from github https://demo.vinceanalytics.com/v1/share/vinceanalytics.com?...

I was going to say that it looks exactly like BeamAnalytics, and now I'm confused to who's copying who...

What legal issues are you imagining?

I'm also interested in this. They seem to have very similar UI

I checked the go.mod and it seems to be importing a module named pebble by cockroachdb i assume that's where everything is stored

https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble

It uses Pebble, the key-value store that backs CockroachDB.

This is one of the reason I created vince.

For reference, the demo is hosted on a 6$ vultr instance, the last 3 days it handled about 11.9K pageviws with 4.3K unique visitors.

I have just checked the vultr dashboard.

Bandwidth = 3.37 GB ,vCPU usage = 1% (yep one percent) , Current charges = 1.06$.

Majority of the bandwidth is for outgoing data serving the dashboard.

I carefully designed vince to be extremely efficient for web analytics workloads.

Please give vince a try.

2M page views and not much revenue does sound like a choice. I have no affiliation to Plausible but 2M pageviews per month has such high revenue potential that if you'd monetize it (which frankly is the logical assumption they'd operate on), $189 month would be a trivial expense.

Hi, just FYI, the Wide Angle Analytics (my product) will cost you between 30 and 90 EUR per month for 1M and 10M accordingly.

There are many web analytics providers with surprisingly high prices.

We are cheaper and even planning on creating free tier by making smart use of resources and avoiding overpriced cloud providers.

From the Readme:

> vince started as a Go port of plausible with a focus on self hosting.

Thanks, that is very nice setup.

Does it always pull the latest vince image?

Just FYI, we also have simple helm charts, and the repository is hosted on https://vinceanalytics.com/charts

Interesting, I just checked the readme. Very similar but looks like it only works with AWS and has a lot of moving pieces.

How do you deal with location data, do you purchase maxmind db license or use their free versions.

Both maxmind and db-ip free versions of city data miss city geo id values, rendering city data useless for many cases.

With vince, I had to index embed the whole city data from geonames database to work around this.

The demo, which survived HN hug of death is running on 6$ vultr instance.

RAM : 1GB

STORAGE: 25 GB

so far bandwidth used is 3.6GB

So, you can successful deploy vince on low spec servers depending on your expected traffic.

No idea, but generally, a bloom filter would get you there without any identifying information being stored. The counts would merely be estimates at that point, not exact values.

At least for Plausible, they state this (https://plausible.io/blog/google-analytics-cookies):

> Instead of tagging users with cookies, we count the number of unique IP addresses that accessed your website. Counting IP addresses is an old-school method that was used before the modern age of JavaScript snippets and tracking cookies.

Since IP addresses are considered personal data under GDPR, we anonymize them using a one-way cryptographic hash function. This generates a random string of letters and numbers that is used to calculate unique visitor numbers for the day. Old salts are deleted to avoid the possibility of linking visitor information from one day to the next. We never store IP addresses in our database or logs.

most likely through one way ip hashing bounded by time duration. If you have utm's in your url than it can track otherwise probably not.

As a side consideration, according to the varying opinions in response to this question it’s not really clear what constitutes PII (personally identifying information).

When I researched this topic it was strange to me that no one seems to agree. Is it just arm-chair internet answers? Or is it actually that the letter of the law is actually ambiguous? What are the real world consequences of using this when it’s possible it violates GDPR? Or, what are the chances there would be consequences?

> Does this work on your average 10,-/month shared hosting server?

Since they usually offer software via cPanel and alike, seems unlikely unless you give it lots of time for the project to first get popular enough to get on the "admin panels" mind, and secondly for them to integrate it.

Besides, do people really pay 10 USD/month for shared hosting? Sounds really expensive when you can grab VPSes for half that price and run whatever software you want, not just what they've packaged for you. I guess ongoing maintainace is included in that price, but still sounds kind of expensive for what you get.

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