What is Open Analytics (analytics.gitopen.dev)?

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Open Analytics is a website analytics tool that tracks visitors, pageviews, sessions, bounce rate, and realtime activity, positioned as simple, fast, and privacy-friendly. It fits teams that want to see traffic as it happens and connect analytics with SEO signals, rather than dig through historical reports built for dedicated analysts. The site describes a free Startup plan (1 year, up to 100 projects) and a 14-day free trial on paid plans.

What it does

Open Analytics focuses on live behavior and growth sources rather than yesterday's numbers. According to the site, the core capabilities are:

  • Realtime analytics — watch visitors arrive live, see which pages they are on, where they came from, and how they move through the site, including an interactive visitor map.
  • Traffic source tracking — traffic sources, campaigns, referrals, and organic search performance in one place, so you can see which channels bring visitors that matter.
  • SEO insights alongside analytics — Domain Authority tracking, Search Console data, and SimilarWeb insights without switching between tools.
  • Search engine visibility — monitor crawl activity, search engine bots, and indexing behavior, including when Google discovers, revisits, or ignores content.
  • Public dashboards — share analytics with clients, teammates, investors, or a community without requiring viewers to log in.

The stated audience is founders, not analysts: the emphasis is on visitors, conversions, traffic sources, campaigns, and SEO performance instead of dozens of unused reports.

How setup works

The site describes a three-step flow:

  1. Create a project — sign in with Google or GitHub, then create a website in the dashboard. Each project gets a site key, and no separate analytics database needs to be provisioned.
  2. Add the script — copy one script tag into your HTML or Next.js layout. Events POST to your Open Analytics server.
  3. Start reading data — events flow into your PostgreSQL database, and traffic appears in the dashboard.

The site claims setup in about one minute. The practical implication of the PostgreSQL detail: your event data lands in a database you control, which is relevant if data ownership or querying raw events matters to you.

Plans and access

Plan What the site states
Startup plan Free for 1 year, up to 100 projects; described as free to apply
Paid plans 14-day free trial

The page does not list prices, payment methods, or login restrictions beyond the sign-in options above, so check the site's pricing page for current terms before committing.

When it is a good fit

Choose Open Analytics if you want realtime visitor visibility, SEO signals in the same place as traffic data, and shareable dashboards without giving viewers accounts. It is less suited if you need deep historical reporting, complex attribution modeling, or analyst-grade segmentation — the product explicitly positions itself away from that.

To evaluate it, the fastest path is the live demo linked from the site, then the free Startup plan for a real project.