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Plausible Analytics

Privacy-friendly, lightweight web analytics and traffic measurement tool

Alternative to: Google Analytics, Matomo, Fathom Analytics, Simple Analytics, Heap Analytics, Mixpanel, Adobe Analytics


About Versions (21)

v1.4.0

2021-10-27

The highlights of this release are:

  • Invite team members to your site dashboard
  • More powerful filtering options
  • Email verification requirement for users is now disabled by default. It can be enabled with the ENABLE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION=true option.

To update your installation, make sure your _docker-compose.yml_l file is referencing plausible/analytics with the following tag: v1.4.0. Then run the following commands:

$ docker-compose down
$ docker-compose pull plausible
$ docker-compose up -d

This will run your database migrations and boot up the new version of the app. Following changes have been made since v1.3:

Added

  • New parameter metrics for the /api/v1/stats/timeseries endpoint plausible/analytics#952
  • CSV export now includes pageviews, bounce rate and visit duration in addition to visitors plausible/analytics#952
  • Send stats to multiple dashboards by configuring a comma-separated list of domains plausible/analytics#968
  • To authenticate against a local postgresql via socket authentication, the environment-variables DATABASE_SOCKET_DIR & DATABASE_NAME were added.
  • Time on Page metric available in detailed Top Pages report plausible/analytics#1007
  • Wildcard based page, entry page and exit page filters plausible/analytics#1067
  • Exclusion filters for page, entry page and exit page filters plausible/analytics#1067
  • Menu (with auto-complete) to add new and edit existing filters directly plausible/analytics#1089
  • Added CLICKHOUSE_FLUSH_INTERVAL_MS and CLICKHOUSE_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE configuration parameters plausible/analytics#1073
  • Ability to invite users to sites with different roles plausible/analytics#1122
  • Option to configure a custom name for the script file
  • Add Conversion Rate to Top Sources, Top Pages Devices, Countries when filtered by a goal plausible/analytics#1299
  • Add list view for countries report in dashboard plausible/analytics#1381
  • Add ability to view more than 100 custom goal properties plausible/analytics#1353

Fixed

  • Fix weekly report time range plausible/analytics#951
  • Make sure embedded dashboards can run when user has blocked third-party cookies plausible/analytics#971
  • Sites listing page will paginate if the user has a lot of sites plausible/analytics#994
  • Crash when changing theme on a loaded dashboard plausible/analytics#1123
  • UI fix for details button overlapping content on mobile plausible/analytics#1114
  • UI fix for the main graph on mobile overlapping its tick items on both axis
  • UI fixes for text not showing properly in bars across multiple lines. This hides the totals on <768px and only shows the uniques and % to accommodate the goals text too. Larger screens still truncate as usual.
  • Turn off autocomplete for name and password inputs in the New shared link form.
  • Details modals are now responsive and take up less horizontal space on smaller screens to make it easier to scroll.
  • Fix reading config from file
  • Fix some links not opening correctly in new tab
  • UI fix for more than one row of custom event properties plausible/analytics#1383
  • UI fix for user menu and time picker overlapping plausible/analytics#1352
  • Respect the path component of BASE_URL to allow subfolder installatons

Removed

  • Removes AppSignal monitoring package

Changes

  • Disable email verification by default. Added a configuration option ENABLE_EMAIL_VERIFICATION=true if you want to keep the old behaviour