Simple Web Tracker

Disclaimer: This is not a production ready tracking solution. It was created is being maintained with the commitment of an exploratory side project. That being said feel free to play around with it and get in touch if you'd like to collaborate.

Why

I wanted to build a tracking solution for small sites that want to learn more about their users behavior without disrespecting their privacy or sending their data to Google.

How

Tracking service using Golang and Gin
Small JS snippet to send events
Postgres for storage (I don't think this is going to scale, I am thinking about adding a redis layer and only dumping aggregates into pg)

Setup

I'll make this more straightforward and config file based once I have a handle on the core functionality.

Add allowed origins in tracker/server/router.go
Update DB credentials in tracker/db/db.go
Run postgres on same machine, create tracker DB
Run migration scripts db/init.sql
Build golang project for target platform: make build
Run make run_production
Use js snippet in js-lib according to example

Next steps

Add consent management layer / mechanisms to Javascript snippet
Create simple database views as analytics PoC
Create simple visualization based on DB
Load test solution with Postgres to check for viability
Redis layer
Config, deployability, documentation

Contributing

I am open for collaboration - if you find this project useful/ inspiring/ fun to work on please get in touch via Twitter or Email.

License

fstau/simple-web-tracker

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