mavimo / webanalytics

Open source analytics program written in go (golang) and javascript.

#webanalytics

##Overview If you want web analytics, you can use one or more of several third party services. Webanalytics is a simple performant open source application that covers some common use cases.

• How many page views am I getting? (Sometimes it's difficult to tell with varnish)
• On which URLs?
• What percentage of users are still on IE x?
• Which content do users click on?

##About the project

• This is not production ready yet, though feel free to try it and report any bugs.
• Uses go (golang) to process requests.
• Uses a postgresql database. The database design is purposefully simple in order to be efficient with writes.
• Inserts into the database in a goroutine so requests are handled concurrently.
• Uses javascript to submit posts.

##How to use

Webanalytics is broken into two parts. The server side application and the javascript.

###Server side application If you have already set up your $GOPATH and added $GOPATH/bin to your $PATH you should:

• Create a postgres user and database for webanalytics.
• run "go get github.com/roberttstephens/webanalytics" without quotation marks.
• Copy $GOPATH/src/github.com/roberttstephens/webanalytics/config.json to somewhere of your choice.
• Edit config.json to reflect your new database connection and desired port.
• Run "webanalytics --config path/to/config.json" without quotation marks.

###Javascript The javascript is in poor shape right now. However, you should be able to copy docs/webanalytics.js to your site, change your domain (and possibly port) and start receiving POSTs. Please reach out to me if something doesn't work, so I can fix it.

How to contribute

Right here on github.com is easiest.

• Fork the project.
• Make a commit or two.
• Perform a pull request.