IndieStats

Open source · MIT · Laravel 13

Privacy-friendly analytics on your own infrastructure

IndieStats is a lightweight, self-hosted alternative to mainstream analytics: multiple sites per account, a dedicated snippet, no cookies, and no mandatory consent banners.

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What you get

Everything you need in one place

Dashboards, advanced filters, exports, and automatic housekeeping — without handing data to third parties or weighing down the site you track.

Pageviews & time on page

Track views and send duration on exit or tab change — a privacy-friendly model with visitor identification via localStorage, no cookies.

Outbound clicks

See clicks to external domains so you know which off-site resources your visitors use.

Custom events

Up to 20 key–value properties per event. Tie events to goals and watch conversions over time.

UTM & referrer

UTM parameters, referrers, and search queries with automatic source classification (search engines, social, and more).

Device & country

Browser, OS, device type, and country (optional GeoIP via a local MaxMind GeoLite2 database).

Excel export

XLSX exports run in the background via queues — download data for the selected range and filters when it is ready.

Automatic cleanup

Scheduled jobs remove raw data past your configurable retention window (default ~375 days).

Multi-site & allowlist

Multiple sites per user, each with a public key and allowed domains to prevent snippet abuse.

Noscript fallback

A 1×1 pixel for visitors without JavaScript — limited tracking with useful baseline coverage.

Install

One command to get running locally

PHP 8.3+, Composer, and Node 20+. Supported databases: SQLite (default), MySQL, or PostgreSQL. In production, build frontend assets and run queue workers and cron.

zsh ~/projects
$ 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.

How it works

From zero to your first metrics in seconds

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Install & run

Clone the repo, run composer run setup, or follow the manual steps in the README. For local development, start the stack with composer run dev.

Create a site & paste the snippet

In the app, add a site with a name and allowed domains. Copy the async script and the noscript fallback before the closing body tag — the base URL is your APP_URL.

Open the dashboard

Multi-site overview, per-site detail with charts, server-side tables (DataTables), and filters for path, source, device, country, and UTM parameters.

Production

Deploy without surprises

Set APP_URL to HTTPS, build assets with npm run build, configure cron for Laravel's scheduler, a queue for exports, and — behind a proxy — trusted proxies for GeoIP.

Laravel on a VPS

To run IndieStats (or any Laravel app) in production with zero-downtime deploys, SSL, and workers, you can use Cipi

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