Using Fathom for Site Analytics

Published at May 14, 2019 ·  3 min read

Fathom is an opensource website analytics application that you can self-host or pay for managed hosting. It provides enough information to allow you understand key metrics about the traffic flowing to your website. Some features you might expect, like IP addresses of visitors, geo-location, and user-agent strings, are not available because it’s a privacy focused analytics system. But that’s not a defect, it’s a feature, especially in an online world where privacy is becoming more important to users....