What is MikroAnalytics?

MikroAnalytics is a small, self-hosted analytics service for product teams, independent builders, and privacy-conscious organizations. It is built for the useful middle: enough signal to improve a product, not enough machinery to quietly build visitor dossiers.

Use it when you want the common benefits of privacy-friendlier tools (e.g. Umami, Fathom, Plausible), or a narrow Google Analytics setup, but with MikroSuite-style control: minimal UI, explicit data boundaries, SQLite storage, MikroAuth, and a tracker you can understand.

Why Choose It

• Useful without being creepy. Pageviews, navigation, referrers, campaigns, devices, browsers, OS, optional country, and custom events are collected as aggregates.
• Private by default. No cookies, no local storage, no cross-site visitor IDs, no raw IP storage, no raw user-agent storage, no visitor timelines, and raw debug events are off by default.
• Small enough to own. A Node service, a SQLite database, a static dashboard, and a tiny browser script served from your own domain.
• Product analytics, not just page counters. Track events like signup, upgrade_click, trial_started, or search_used without pulling in a heavyweight product analytics suite.
• Clear setup feedback. The dashboard guides the first site, shows the generated snippet, and reports recent collect attempts so installation problems are visible immediately.
• Built for the Mikro family. Calm interface, local-first instincts, compact APIs, plain configuration, and production-oriented builds.

What It Measures

MikroAnalytics tracks pageviews, single-page app navigation, custom events, top pages, referrer origins, campaign parameters, browser, device type, operating system, optional daily unique estimates, and period-over-period changes for the headline metrics.

It can also read a country code from an infrastructure header such as Cloudflare’s cf-ipcountry when geo collection is explicitly enabled. It does not do IP geolocation itself.

What It Avoids

MikroAnalytics is not a behavioral advertising platform, session replay tool, identity graph, heatmap recorder, or customer data platform.

It does not try to answer “what did this person do?” The intended question is “what is being used, where are people coming from, and which product moments matter?”

Good Fits

MikroAnalytics works well for SaaS dashboards, documentation sites, product landing pages, private tools, open-source projects, and small teams that want analytics data to stay boring, inspectable, and close to home.

It is especially useful when the current choice is between “no analytics at all” and “adding a commercial analytics script that collects more than the product needs.”