Privacy-friendly web analytics made and hosted in Germany — powerful, cookie-free, and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA, and PECR.
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We crossed $3,000 in monthly recurring revenue! 🎉
It took us ~12 months to get to $1,000 and only another 7 months to add $2,000 more. 🚀
A huge thanks to everybody, let's see what 2023 brings! 🙌
(We also reached 700 followers in the process) 👀
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We just hit $8,000 in monthly recurring revenue, which puts us within reach of the big $100,000 ARR milestone — thanks to all of you! 🥳
Additionally, Pirsch Analytics 2.0 is live on Product Hunt today! 👇
producthunt.com/posts/pirsch…
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After a difficult last month, we have now reached another milestone: as of today, Pirsch has $7,042 in MRR! 🎉
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Just in time for the new month, we have reached $4,000 MRR. Here are the numbers for March:
📅 MRR: $3,820 → $4,025 (+5.4%)
😀 Subscribers: 271 → 297 (+9.6%)
We saw a similar number of new subscriptions, but the average size was smaller.
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In any case, we're not above celebrating every little milestone.
$6,000 monthly recurring revenue achieved! 🎉
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We have aquired our biggest customer yet! They are on the 100 million page views plan, adding $669 MRR or $8028 ARR! 🎉🥳
This lifts our total revenue from almost $2,000 to now $2,600 MRR 💰
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Major milestone alert! 🚀
We are thrilled to announce that we surpassed $5,000 in Monthly Recurring Revenue over the weekend! 🥳
A huge thank you to our committed users for your trust in our services! 🙌
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Sneak peek of our upcoming version! 👀
Quickly get an overview of your page views and unique visitors and switch between dashboards! You can toggle between panels and a list view.
We will also change the main navigation (WIP) to add new features later on.
What do you think?
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We've been so busy building Pirsch Analytics 2.0 that we forgot to mention another important milestone: We recently hit $50,000 in annual recurring revenue! 🥳🎉
It is time to once again thank our 300+ subscribers for their continued support. 🙌
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With 2022 in the bag it is time to look at the numbers for pirsch.io in comparison to 2021:
💵 Net revenue: $3,768 → $32,264 (+756%)
📅 MRR: $382 → $3,254 (+751%)
😀 Subscribers: 48 → 233 (+385%)
A great success overall! 🎉
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September marks the first month we crossed $10,000 in revenue thanks to our new largest customer. 🎉
We are now looking at 172 subscribers! 🚀
But it can't all be smooth sailing: Since we started payments in 03/2021, we've lost $450 MRR to churn. 👀
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Caddy (@caddyserver) is a fantastic web server, load balancer, and reverse proxy 👍
We use it for pirsch.io to dynamically provision SSL certificates for our fully white-labeled customer domains.
Learn how we set it up in our latest blog post! 👓
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Let's take a look at how Pirsch performed in 2023 compared to 2022 overall:
💵 Net revenue: $32,264 → $67,610 (+110%)
📅 MRR: $3,254 → $7,158 (+120%)
😀 Subscribers: 233 → 449 (+93%)
We basically doubled everywhere! 🙌
#openstartup #buildinpublic
With 2022 in the bag it is time to look at the numbers for pirsch.io in comparison to 2021:
💵 Net revenue: $3,768 → $32,264 (+756%)
📅 MRR: $382 → $3,254 (+751%)
😀 Subscribers: 48 → 233 (+385%)
A great success overall! 🎉
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October marks another fantastic month. With a net subscriber growth of 33, we averaged over 1 sub/day for the first time. 🚀
Our MRR grew by ~$350 to almost $3,000! 🎉
Here is our subscriber growth over time (missing 6 with manual billing)! 👇
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🎉 Another week, another milestone: As of today, we reached $1,000 in monthly recurring revenue spread across 77 customers! This comes a bit over one year since releasing v1.0 and - much to our surprise - exactly two months after reaching $500 MRR. Thank you!
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We have reached a new milestone: 1,000 people are now following us! Thanks to all of you! 🎉
And of course, we're sharing our numbers for February:
📅 MRR: $3,474 → $3,820 (+9.9%)
😀 Subscribers: 247 → 271 (+9.7%)
Growth continues to be steady!
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Another look at what's to come! 👀
We want to make sure our application feels native to mobile devices as well. 📲
This is not a mockup, it's the actual work in progress.👇
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Unfortunately, we had below-average new customers and above-average churn in October, but due to the size of the new customers and several expansions, the overall result is okay.
📅 MRR: $6,075 → $6,614 (+8.9%)
😀 Subscribers: 417 → 423 (+1.4%)
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Someone at our (two-person) company adjusted your Stripe balance 😱 We'll try to catch him! You're lucky that this mistake was made in your favor! 😌
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A quick January recap:
+ $220 MRR 💵
$3736 payout 💰
+ 30 customers 👋
- 16 customers churned 😢
Hetzner increased prices led to more costs running our service, now at $345 a month.
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We put all our energy into preparing the major update in June, so the numbers are just average:
📅 MRR: $4,370 → $4,642 (+6.2%)
😀 Subscribers: 342 → 353 (+3.2%)
Only 4 more days until Pirsch 2.0 will be released!
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Another excellent month has passed and we have reached exactly 400 paying customers. So once again, thank you!
📅 MRR: $5,259 → $5,769 (+9.7%)
😀 Subscribers: 372 → 400 (+7.5%)
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In case you missed it: Pirsch can easily be installed as a PWA on your smartphone via the browser. 📲
We put a lot of time and effort into making it feel and look like a native app, and we think it is the best mobile experience in the industry! 👇
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Here is another quick preview of an upcoming feature in Pirsch 2.0: full-width dashboards! 👏
In case you prefer a higher information density, you'll be able to switch to the new layout in the account settings.
There is a lot more coming, follow us along here on Twitter! 👍
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Pirsch Analytics 2.0 is live on @ProductHunt! 🎉
We're celebrating over 460 customers, over 250 updates shipped, and thousands of websites that now work without Google Analytics. 📊
Thank you for your continued support! 🙌
producthunt.com/posts/pirsch…
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After one of the worst months of churn in April, May was one of the best. Here are the numbers:
📅 MRR: $4,148 → $4,370 (+5.4%)
😀 Subscribers: 310 → 342 (+10.3%)
We will publish news about Pirsch 2.0 soon, stay tuned!
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We now have an affiliate program! 💯
It allows you to earn rewards for referring new customers to Pirsch.
Simply copy your personal affiliate link, and every time someone signs up for a subscription, a reward is added to your account balance 💰
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We put so much work into Pirsch Analytics 2.0 that we want to share it with the world once again.
Join us on @ProductHunt on Wednesday, January 31st.
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Today we are launching our new website! We have created several pages to address the essential aspects of Pirsch and privacy-friendly analytics.
Check it out at pirsch.io!
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If you use @DuckDuckGo and are looking for a cookie-free web analytics solution, you will notice that one awesome tool has recently been ranked #1! 👇
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It says 404, but we did find new followers!
Thank you guys for over 400 followers, we much appreciate it! 🥳🎉
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Pirsch 2.0 is live! 🎉
We're still working on some details and docs are broken, but overall, we only had a downtime of about two minutes 😁
If you would like to learn more about the history of Pirsch, read Daniel's article!
pirsch.io/blog/introducing-p…
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Version 1.16 is live! 🎉🥳
It's a massive update, including:
👉 reworked filters
👉 saving filter combinations as views
👉 setting a dashboard as favorite
👉 importing Google Universal Analytics stats
Read the news or the full changelog: docs.pirsch.io/changelog/#11…
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It has been a bit quiet, but we're getting closer to our first release candidate for Pirsch version 5! 💯
One important part is still missing, but look how much nicer our query builder now is 👀
Left: before, right: after
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🎉 100. That's how many subscribers we now have, generating $1418 (1349€) in monthly recurring revenue.
A huge thank you to each and every one of you!
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As of this week, Pirsch Analytics officially passed the $500 mark in monthly recurring revenue. This comes roughly 10 months after the release of version 1.0 and the start of payment collection. 🎉
To be exact, we are currently looking at a $542 MRR spread across 49 subscribers.
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We have a release date for Pirsch 2.0! 😎
It will be on July 8th. Expect a few hours of downtime while we roll it out and upgrade and improve our infrastructure.
Notable features are:
👉 Get your own domain for your dashboard
👉Custom themes
👉Team and organization management
👉UI and other minor improvements
We'll be introducing a new pricing plan for custom domains, themes, and organization management.
Full changelog: docs.pirsch.io/changelog#_2-…
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We had a tough month with increased churn & fewer new subs. No obvious cause as far as we can tell, but somehow similar to Nov '22. 📉
📅 MRR: $6,614 → $6,694 (+1.2%)
😀 Subscribers: 423 → 421 (-0.5%)
What's your experience at the moment? 🤔
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Quick reminder: we'll be rolling out Pirsch 2.0 tomorrow morning.
It shouldn't take too long, but there will be downtime. It's hard to predict how long it will take, but it shouldn't take more than a couple of hours.
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Tomorrow is the day: Pirsch Analytics 2.0 will finally be released! 🥳
Here is the very last preview of one of our most anticipated features. 👇
Can you spot all the details that can be customized with themes? 👀
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Great design @Just_Moh_it!
Looks suspiciously close to our dashboard at pirsch.pirsch.io. The same icons, font, color palette, the layout is quite similar...
Everyone finds inspiration in the work of others, but direct copying is a bad style, especially among indie hackers.
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July was our best month of the year so far, due to the end of #GoogleAnalytics 3 and the launch of Pirsch Analytics 2.0!
📅 MRR: $4,642 → $5,259 (+13.3%)
😀 Subscribers: 353 → 372 (+5.4%)
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When the stars align... ✨
Don't dare to follow us or star our GitHub repository, we've reached equilibrium! ⚖️
Screenshot by @zepfietje.
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A good start to the new year, mainly due to a new enterprise customer with a dedicated AWS setup.
📅 MRR: $7,158 → $8,057 (+12.6%)
😀 Subscribers: 449 → 466 (+3.8%)
Also thank you for a successful Product Hunt launch with over 200 upvotes!
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We migrated our Postgres (non-analytical) database overnight from a VM to a much more powerful bare metal machine on @Hetzner_Online! 💾
Zero downtime, and so far only a minor indexing issue that basically resolved itself.
Please let us know if you experience any problems 🤞
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You will now automatically receive a reward for our affiliate program if someone clicks the logo or the "Get Started" button on your public dashboard! 🎉
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Would you be interested in reading case studies? We have some larger clients who we could do an interview with about how and why they use Pirsch in their products.
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Our last addition to the latest update is an indicator that shows the number of active visitors right in the tab!
You can enable it from your account settings page.
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Looking back at April, we saw fewer new subscriptions and higher churn:
📅 MRR: $4,025 → $4,148 (+3.0%)
😀 Subscribers: 297 → 310 (+4.4%)
As we continue to work on what will become version 2.0, we will investigate the reasons for this.
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We have revamped our documentation! 📖
👉 Migrated from Hugo to VitePress
👉 Better structure
👉 Less and clearer content
👉 Search powered by algolia
And of course, there is also a dark mode again!
docs.pirsch.io/
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August marks another small milestone for us: We crossed 15,000 page views in one month for the first time! That is more than we received back in October when we were launching on Product Hunt. 🎉
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Today, we received our first two 500k page views subscriptions! Right behind our largest customer at 10 million page views a month 🥳
We tested up to 150 million page views a month with a client, so Pirsch is a safe bet if you need to analyze a lot of traffic!
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Here are some numbers 📊
- 700 million page views tracked so far
- 187 million sessions
- 41 million events
- 1,464 registered useres
- 192 visitors from our affiliate program
- of which 8 signed up
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We're experimenting with markers in the chart. Here is a quick demo we've hacked together. It's not really practical right now, because you can't add or delete markers and they won't always fit nicely onto the graph.
What do you think?
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Here is a preview of one of our upcoming features 😎
👉 filter by "contains"
👉 combine multiple filters for the same field
👉 search through result options
👉 all is controllable by the keyboard ⌨️
These are just some of many new cool things that will be released next month 👍
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The month of September flew by and we continue to see some growth. Nothing crazy, but we are happy about it! 📊🎉
📅 MRR: $5,769 → $6,075 (+5.3%)
😀 Subscribers: 400 → 417 (+4.3%)
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700 stars ⭐️ on GitHub!
Thank you so much, everyone 🥰
github.com/pirsch-analytics/…
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Here's the final monthly update for 2023, we were fortunate to bounce back to nice growth in December after a bad November! 🎉
📅 MRR: $6,694 → $7,158 (+6.9%)
😀 Subscribers: 421 → 449 (+6.7%)
Also, stay tuned for the complete 2023 roundup! 🧮
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Pirsch v5 is live on pirsch.io now! 🥳🎉
👉 improved bot filter based on the IP address
👉 excluding events now returns visitor stats without an event attached (left join vs inner join)
👉 fixed the session extension feature
👉 UI improvements
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We translated our website to German! Let's see how much it helps in targeting our home turf.
You can toggle the language in the footer ✌️
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Here is a preview of one of the many new features coming in Pirsch 2.2 👀
Can you guess what it is? 👇
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Pirsch version 2.1 is live! 🥳
We will go over the details next week. In the meantime, you can go and read our new public news page 👇
pirsch.io/news
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Pirsch 1.14 is live! 🙌🎉
Results can now be grouped by week, month, and year. Clicking on the graph will filter for the date. We improved the email reports and the JS snippet now allows filtering pages.
We've also made a ton of minor improvements to the UI and on the backend.
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We wrote a short summary for you of the recent Austrian court decision (DSB), declaring it illegal to use Google Analytics in European countries due to the EU-US data transfer. We will keep updating the article.👏
pirsch.io/blog/google-analyt…
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You can now use Cloudflare Workers to proxy Pirsch! 🎉
It's free for up to 100,000 requests per day and really easy to set up. Just follow the documentation linked below 👍
docs.pirsch.io/advanced/cf-w…
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Again, just a teaser of what's coming in our next update. We will probably finish version 1.16 this week 👍
It'll be possible to import your Google Universal Analytics data up until the date you've created the Pirsch dashboard.
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We're thinking about how we can rearrange the menu to add tabs for sessions and funnels in the future.
What do you think?
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Do you know that feeling when ordering a new car? We feel the same excitement when buying hardware. Our new database server is on the way, 32 AMD cores, 256gb RAM, 4tb nvme hard disk :o
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We are currently experiencing limited availability due to a DDoS attack.
A solution is being worked on, but we cannot say when the services will be fully available again.
As soon as we have an update, we will post it here.
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Interesting. Brave will start blocking cookie consent banners. Guess it's time to switch to a solution that doesn't require one?
bleepingcomputer.com/news/se…
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German is not a good language for landing pages... At least when you start with English, everything sounds weird 😅
If you are german, consider switching to English in the footer 👇
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Release 1.15 is now online! 🥳🎉
With a huge number of changes and new features, including:
💡 multi-domain support!
💡 keyboard shortcuts
💡 tables now cover all statistics (with pagination)
💡 support for stateless access tokens
Find out more! 👇
docs.pirsch.io/changelog/#11…
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Did you know browser-level image lazy-loading is supported by ~75% of browsers worldwide? It helped us push the initial page load of our new landing page below 200 kB! Just add loading="lazy" to an image tag or iframe and you are done!
caniuse.com/loading-lazy-att…
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Before the year ends, we would like to thank all of our followers, supporters, and customers! ❤️
Thank you so much for helping us build a great product and allowing us to do what we really love. We hope you'll have a wonderful Christmas and a happy new year! 🎄🎇
We'll see you back in 2024, with plenty of new features and improvements! 🙌
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We're live on @ProductHunt! Feel free to leave us an upvote or a review. Thanks to @TheNathanRuff for hunting us.
producthunt.com/posts/pirsch…
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For you technical people. We run a @HashiCorp Nomad server cluster on @Hetzner_Online using their load balancer, @traefik for routing, and Postgres as our storage backend. It's easy to set up and maintain and we might write about how it works in the future if you're interested :)
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We've improved the resources menu. You can now find more of our social links and the data processing agreement (AV-Vertrag in German) 👍
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Here is another upcoming feature: favorite a dashboard so that it will be loaded by default ⭐
This has been requested a few times by different users.
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We have a sharp increase in traffic on the login page. This is a good way to measure user activity 👍
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Upcoming feature in Pirsch 2.1: a conversion rate graph for pages, events, and conversion goals!
There will also be two new graphs related to events that we will show you soon. Let us know what you think 😁!
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Yesterday, one of our servers was down. Luckily we run a three-node Nomad cluster, so users stayed unaffected, and @Hetzner_Online fixed the incident within minutes 👍
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Just four days left until #GoogleAnalytics (#GA3) shuts down!
Consider switching to pirsch.io instead of #GA4. It'll be worth it! 👏
We'll launch Pirsch 2.0 shortly after and have a bunch of new features on our roadmap.
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Exactly 1,000 commits on our open-source privacy-friendly analytics repository! 👀
Looking forward to the next 1,000 👏
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We're working on v5 of our open-source analytics core!
👉 cleaner
👉 simpler configuration and better defaults
👉 bug fixes and performance improvements
Leave us a star if you like the project! 🌟
github.com/pirsch-analytics/…
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It could very well be that our new white labeling feature will be too powerful after all. 👀
We take no responsibility for what you will use it for, but we will definitely judge you from afar! 🕵️♂️
What else would you like to see as a setting?
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We've started working on filtering bots, crawlers, data centers, and more by IP address. This should again greatly improve the quality of your analytics 👍
If you're curious, we will most likely be using the list from udger.com.
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Hey @Rebaccle!
What a great-looking website you have there! Your customers seem to love what you are doing...
The product looks a bit like @umami_software.
rebacle.com
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You can now pin dashboards and search for domains and organizations! 😎
We also improved roll-up views, added new icons, and added detection for traffic from Arc (@browsercompany) 👍
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We had a steep incline in stars on our GitHub repository thanks to the pluja/awesome-privacy list. Go check it out for more privacy-friendly options 👍
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