ArgusMetrics

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.

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.