Fair Analytics Blog

Hi there. We are Frederik and Hendrik. Here we post about how we are building a fair and open web analytics tool and what we discovered along the way.

Instant Access
30 Oct 2022, Hendrik Niefeld

Instant Access

Keep track of all Offen Fair Web Ananlytics instances you have visited. Read more

Complete and stable
03 Apr 2022, Hendrik Niefeld

Complete and stable

Yay! Offen Fair Web Analytics and its configuration APIs are now available in version v1.0.0. Read more

Visitor location
02 Nov 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Visitor location

Recently we have added privacy friendly location stats and further options to improve user awareness. Read more

Styles and Filters
28 Jul 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Styles and Filters

Making the consent banner customisable and the ability to filter collected data are our main achievements over the last ten weeks. Read more

Disclose what you collect
24 May 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Disclose what you collect

Why we drafted a standard that allows you to disclose information about your use of analytics software and user tracking. Read more

Extend the view
20 Apr 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Extend the view

Over the last eight weeks, we have further optimized our display options, added a French locale, and made our Docker image more safe. Read more

Our story so far
09 Mar 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Our story so far

All about why and how we develop a fair and open source web analytics software. Read more

Improving interfaces
07 Feb 2021, Hendrik Niefeld

Improving interfaces

Our key achievements in the last six weeks are a German locale and customizable time intervals for the Auditorium. Read more

Performance and Awareness
17 Dec 2020, Hendrik Niefeld

Performance and Awareness

In the last three months, we have significantly improved query performance, added onboarding to our Auditorium, and updated our Docs. Read more

Opt-in for quality insights
28 Oct 2020, Hendrik Niefeld

Opt-in for quality insights

Collecting data only with user consent has a less obvious implication: the quality of insights from web analytics increases. Read more

Packaging and testing
14 Sep 2020, Frederik Ring

Packaging and testing

For Milestone 6 we have tested our app intensively and added several new installation options and tutorials for popular hosters. Read more

Resilience and documentation
22 Jul 2020, Frederik Ring

Resilience and documentation

With milestone 5 we finally got rid of the alpha label, improved testing as well as licensing and upgraded our documentation. Read more

Managing data
09 Jun 2020, Frederik Ring

Managing data

Milestone 4 comes with enhanced account management, UX improvements and an updated demo version. Read more

Displaying data
13 Apr 2020, Frederik Ring

Displaying data

Our milestone 3 achievements include an improved UX, a Heroku deploy option and full Safari support. Read more

Test our alpha release today
04 Mar 2020, Hendrik Niefeld

Test our alpha release today

Help us take a step forward. Download or deploy Offen Fair Web Analytics today and give it a spin. Any feedback is appreciated. Read more

Collecting data securely
31 Jan 2020, Hendrik Niefeld

Collecting data securely

Our key milestone 2 features are user consent, improved crypto implementation and an extended set of stats. Read more

Untold roads to v1.0
19 Jan 2020, Frederik Ring

Untold roads to v1.0

Onboarding users onto a product that is still in development needs a thorough plan. These are our conclusions as we work our way to a v1.0 release of Offen Fair Web Analytics. Read more