ArgusMetrics
Open source web analytics, fully cookie-free
Client
Own open source project
Type
SaaS
Year
2025
Duration
5 weeks
The Challenge
Google Analytics and similar tools require cookies, consent banners, and send visitor data to third parties. For many websites that's both a GDPR risk and a worse user experience.
The goal was a privacy-friendly analytics tool that works without cookies, without consent prompts, and without data ever leaving your own server. And since trust is the whole point of a privacy tool, the code had to be open, so anyone can audit exactly what is tracked and self-host it themselves.
The Solution
ArgusMetrics is a Django-based analytics platform with cookie-free tracking (under 4 KB script), Chart.js visualizations, and PostgreSQL storage. No cookies are set, no tracking pixels, nothing that requires a consent banner.
The entire project is open source under AGPL-3.0 and lives publicly on GitHub, with a self-host guide so you can run it on your own infrastructure and fully own your data. A live demo and documentation are available at argusmetrics.io.
How it's built
- The tracking script is under 4 KB, negligible impact on page load.
- Open source under AGPL-3.0, audit exactly what is tracked line by line.
- Self-host guide, run it on your own infrastructure and fully own the data.
- Real-time dashboard built on Chart.js and PostgreSQL.
- No third party, no cookie, no consent banner.
Process & Delivery
Delivered in 5 weeks, considerably faster than a typical agency project.
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Cookies
Compliant
GDPR
Open
Source
AGPL-3.0
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