Simple Web Tracker

Disclaimer: This is not a production ready tracking solution. It was created is being maintained with the commitment of an exploratory side project. That being said feel free to play around with it and get in touch if you'd like to collaborate.

Why

I wanted to build a tracking solution for small sites that want to learn more about their users behavior without disrespecting their privacy or sending their data to Google.

How

• Tracking service using Golang and Gin
• Small JS snippet to send events
• Postgres for storage (I don't think this is going to scale, I am thinking about adding a redis layer and only dumping aggregates into pg)

Setup

I'll make this more straightforward and config file based once I have a handle on the core functionality.

• Add allowed origins in tracker/server/router.go
• Update DB credentials in tracker/db/db.go
• Run postgres on same machine, create tracker DB
• Run migration scripts db/init.sql
• Build golang project for target platform: make build
• Run make run_production
• Use js snippet in js-lib according to example

Next steps

• Add consent management layer / mechanisms to Javascript snippet
• Create simple database views as analytics PoC
• Create simple visualization based on DB
• Load test solution with Postgres to check for viability
• Redis layer
• Config, deployability, documentation

Contributing

I am open for collaboration - if you find this project useful/ inspiring/ fun to work on please get in touch via Twitter or Email.