Offen Fair Web Analytics is a open and self hosted web analytics tool that treats operators and users as equal parties.

Complete and stable | Offen
03 Apr 2022, Hendrik Niefeld

Episode Twelve — Complete and stable

It is a particular delight to share some of the highlights of our recent work with you this time. Over the last 4 months we made it possible to to run Offen Fair Web Analytics on ARM based hardware and added a Spanish and Portuguese locale. As always, we have also made some minor bug fixes and dependency updates.

Since our last update we have published a few new versions:

Yes, you have read correctly. Finally, the time has come: After intensive work, Offen Fair Web Analytics is now available in the first, from our perspective, complete and fully functional version. Download it at https://get.offen.dev or pull it from Docker Hub.

Achievements

v1.0.0

More than two years ago, we had reflected on this matter. Now this stage has finally come for this project as well. Offen Fair Web Analytics v1.0.0 is here.

Altough this does not bring major changes, we have decided to keep Offen Fair Web Analytics and its configuration APIs stable for now. That means you will always be able to upgrade a v1 instance to a later v1 version without any further steps required.

On this occasion thanks again to all who have contributed to the code base: @strootje @rocketnova @jtraulle @0xflotus @raLaaaa @kocvrek @MarcoPNS

Hola mundo, Olá Mundo

Our consent banner and the Auditorium for operators as well as users can be displayed in two more locales. Offen Fair Web Analytics is now available in English, German, French and recently also in Spanish and Portuguese.

To run Offen Fair Web Analytics in a non-default locale, you need to set OFFEN_APP_LOCALE to the desired value. In the case of Portuguese that'd be pt for example. Check the docs about configuring the application.

If you want to support fair web analytics by contributing other language versions, don't hesitate to request an invite.

Raspberry Pi

We added the option to run Offen Fair Web Analytics on ARM based hardware such as Raspberry Pis using the official binary distributions and Docker images. Many thanks for the contribution@strootje.

What now?

Maybe now would be a good time to look back on the past 2 years. However, since we are already working on projects that take the idea behind Offen Fair Web Analytics even further, writing a project summary is postponed for the time being. In the meantime, we suggest taking a look at this interim retrospective and our analytics.txt project.

Obviously, the development of Offen Fair Web Analytics is not finished with ther current v1.0.0 version. We will continue to maintain the project and adapt it to new requirements. For this we definitely need your continued support. Keep testing and installing Offen Fair Web Analytics latest releases and share your experience with us.

General feedback, comments or bug reports are always welcome. Open an issue or send an email. Feel invited to work together to drive the idea of fair data transfer forward.