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Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails

15 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 3 stories, 12 comments · first 2011-06-02 · latest 2025-01-17

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    Ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
    story by thunderbong · 2025-01-17 · 0 comments
  2. analytics is built with ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy . the project is open source if you need more details https://github.com/adrienpoly/rubyvideo Hosting is in Europe on Hetzner maybe it explains your response time. Where are you…
    comment by pauillac · 2024-12-17 · in Ruby Video – On a mission to index all Ruby conferences
  3. …makes it super easy to impersonate a different user in a rails app https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is first party analytics for rails https://github.com/ankane/blazer is BI built into rails https://github.com/ankane/field_test
    comment by mooreds · 2024-08-20 · in Transformers for Ruby
  4. I've slowly started ripping Google Analytics out of my Rails projects and replacing it with https://github.com/ankane/ahoy . It's so much better! I can just use SQL to see what's going in and not get overwhelmed with 100's of…
    comment by bradgessler · 2022-06-24 · in Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics
  5. I use https://github.com/ankane/ahoy and quite happy with it
    comment by dorianmariefr · 2021-03-07 · in Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics
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    Ankane/ahoy: Simple, powerful, first-party analytics for Rails
    story by r_singh · 2021-01-03 · 0 comments
  7. For Rails, there's Ahoy: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
    comment by Trasmatta · 2020-08-18 · in Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics
  8. …and follow all relevant regulations & guidelines (ex: GDPR) regarding its storage and usage. [1]: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
    comment by cfitz · 2020-06-18 · in Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
  9. If your app is already built with Rails, adding https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is pretty simple. Combine with https://github.com/ankane/blazer and you can build a reasonable set of reports as well. It's pretty simple to extend too: I've…
    comment by mhw · 2020-06-18 · in Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics
  10. Ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy is an interesting tool that we use to replace Google Analytics in most projects now. It covers all the basic needs, and even if you're not using Rails, I think you can draw inspiration from it!
    comment by Spone · 2019-06-12 · in Ask HN: Good tech talks on how analytics systems are implemented?
  11. I'm using ahoy https://github.com/ankane/ahoy with my Rails applications and I'm very happy with it. Geocoder using the IP is included and the thing that matters for me is being able to set an additional conversion flag on the visit.
    comment by TomK32 · 2019-05-11 · in Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics
  12. …provide a simple API for event tracking and saving database queries. [1]: https://sidekiq.org/ [2]: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy [3]: https://github.com/ankane/blazer
    comment by rememberlenny · 2019-03-19 · in Why I believe Rails is still relevant in 2019
  13. I can recommend https://github.com/ankane/ahoy for Rails
    comment by masa331 · 2018-12-14 · in Show HN: Minimal Google Analytics Snippet
  14. Ahoy is a great tool to do just that, if you use Ruby on Rails: https://github.com/ankane/ahoy
    comment by Spone · 2018-09-19 · in Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
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    See how traffic sources perform over time with Ahoy
    story by akane · 2011-06-02 · 0 comments