Privacy-friendly analytics on your own infrastructure.

Features

Everything you need in one place — without handing visitor data to third parties or weighing down the sites you track.

Screenshots

From the multi-site overview down to the snippet you paste on your pages.

Install

One command. PHP 8.3+, Composer, and Node 20+. SQLite by default — MySQL and PostgreSQL work too.

git clone https://github.com/andreapollastri/indiestats.git
cd indiestats
composer run setup

The setup script installs dependencies, runs the Vite build, creates .env, generates the app key, and runs migrations.

Manual install

composer install
npm install
npm run build
cp .env.example .env
php artisan key:generate
touch database/database.sqlite
php artisan migrate

Quick start

From zero to your first metrics in three steps.

Optional demo data

Add SEED_FAKE_DATA=true to .env, then:

php artisan db:seed

Creates an admin user (admin@users.test / password) and, when seeding is enabled, sample analytics.

Tracking

A lightweight async snippet plus a 1×1 pixel for visitors without JavaScript.

<script async src="https://your-indiestats-url/i/xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx.js"></script>
<noscript><img src="https://your-indiestats-url/collect/pixel.gif?k=xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx&p=/" width="1" height="1" /></noscript>

The script tracks pageviews, time on page, outbound clicks, UTM parameters, on-site search queries, page title, query string, language, timezone, and a per-tab session ID.

Custom events

indiestats.track('signup');

indiestats.track('purchase', {
  plan: 'pro',
  price: '29.99',
  currency: 'USD'
});

Up to 20 key–value properties per event. Tie events to goals in the dashboard to watch conversions.

Dashboard

A multi-site overview, then dedicated tabs for every angle of traffic.

• Overview — unique visitors, pageviews, sparklines, live counts, and date ranges (today → 1 year).
• Summary — headline metrics, top pages, and top sources.
• Real-time — active visitors, last 5 minutes, 30-minute chart, live activity feed.
• Content / Traffic / UTM — paths, titles, referrers, search queries, and campaigns.
• Technology — device, browser, OS, language, timezone, and ASN.
• Geography — country table plus interactive choropleth map.
• Visitor / Events — visitor IDs, human vs bot, custom events and goals.

UI is localized in IT, EN, DE, FR, and ES — including DataTables, country names, and export sheets.

Filters

One filter bar. Every tab, chart, realtime count, DataTables AJAX call, and Excel export respects it.

Production

Deploy without surprises. Set APP_URL to HTTPS, build assets, run the scheduler and a queue worker.

npm run build
php artisan config:cache
php artisan route:cache
php artisan view:cache

Scheduler

One cron entry drives pruning, weekly GeoIP updates, and monthly ASN downloads.

* * * * * cd /path-to-indiestats && php artisan schedule:run >> /dev/null 2>&1

Queue

Excel exports run as background jobs. Locally, composer run dev covers the worker. In production, keep one running:

php artisan queue:work --sleep=3 --tries=3

Use Supervisor (or equivalent) so the worker restarts automatically.