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\\n```\\n\\nWithin seconds, you're tracking privacy-friendly analytics that you can be proud of.\\n\\n### Core Features\\n\\n**Real-time Analytics Dashboard**\\n\\nA beautiful, responsive dashboard built with React and Chart.js shows your website's performance at a glance:\\n\\n- Interactive line charts for traffic trends\\n- Donut charts for traffic source breakdown\\n- World map visualizations for geographic insights\\n- Real-time metrics updating as data flows in\\n\\n**Multi-Site Management**\\n\\nTrack multiple websites from one account. Each site gets its own tracking script and isolated analytics dashboard. 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Telemetry

Completed5 min read

Tech Stack

FastifyReactTypeScriptPrismaPostgreSQLGitHub OAuthShadcnTanstack

Analytics with a Soul: Privacy-First Web Analytics for the Modern Web

In a digital world cluttered with noise, intrusive tracking, and data hoarding, Telemetry stands as a different kind of analytics platform. Born from a simple yet powerful conviction: you can understand your audience without compromising their privacy. Analytics can be a tool for connection, not exploitation.

Telemetry is live and ready to use. It's our answer to a web that has lost its way, a working, breathing platform where you can gain genuine insights into your work's reach and impact, while respecting your visitors as people, not data points.

What Makes Telemetry Different

Privacy is Paramount

Telemetry is cookieless by design. We don't track individuals across the web. We don't collect personal data beyond what's essential for aggregated insights. Every visitor is anonymized through cryptographic hashing, no IP addresses stored, no cross-site tracking, no surveillance.

Your visitors' trust is sacred, and Telemetry protects it. No GDPR banners. No cookie consent popups. No legal complications. Just honest, privacy-respecting analytics.

Clarity Over Clutter

Modern analytics dashboards drown you in complexity. Telemetry gives you what matters:

  • Page views and unique visitors
  • Bounce rates and session duration
  • Top pages and referrer sources
  • Geographic location insights
  • Conversion goal tracking

Actionable insights at a glance, presented in a clean, beautiful interface that respects your time and intelligence.

You Own Your Data

Telemetry is open-source and self-hosted. Your analytics live on your infrastructure, under your control. No third-party servers. No data mining. No mysterious Terms of Service changes.

This is your data, telling your story, in your hands. Forever.

One Line of Code

Add a single script tag to your website. That's it. No complex setup, no SDK initialization, no configuration files.

html
<script
  defer
  src="https://your-telemetry.com/script.js"
  data-site-id="your-site-id"
></script>

Within seconds, you're tracking privacy-friendly analytics that you can be proud of.

Core Features

Real-time Analytics Dashboard

A beautiful, responsive dashboard built with React and Chart.js shows your website's performance at a glance:

  • Interactive line charts for traffic trends
  • Donut charts for traffic source breakdown
  • World map visualizations for geographic insights
  • Real-time metrics updating as data flows in

Multi-Site Management

Track multiple websites from one account. Each site gets its own tracking script and isolated analytics dashboard. Perfect for agencies, freelancers, or anyone managing multiple web properties.

Goal Tracking

Define custom conversion goals and track them automatically:

  • Page visit goals
  • Event-based conversions
  • Custom event tracking
  • Conversion funnel visualization

UTM Campaign Tracking

Measure marketing effectiveness with comprehensive UTM parameter support:

  • Campaign source and medium tracking
  • Campaign name and content tracking
  • Automatic referrer detection
  • ROI measurement for marketing spend

Location Intelligence

Understand where your visitors come from:

  • Country-level geographic data
  • City and region insights (optional)
  • World map visualization
  • No personal identification just aggregated location data

GitHub Authentication

Secure, hassle-free authentication using GitHub OAuth. No passwords to remember, no email verification, just click and sign in.

Comprehensive Documentation

Built-in documentation right in the platform. Learn how to integrate Telemetry, customize tracking, and interpret your data, all without leaving the dashboard.

Technical Architecture

Privacy by Design

Telemetry implements privacy at the architectural level:

  • Visitor IDs are cryptographic hashes (SHA-256) of anonymized data
  • No personally identifiable information (PII) is ever stored
  • IP addresses are hashed and discarded immediately
  • No cookies or localStorage tracking
  • Fully GDPR and CCPA compliant by default

Performance Optimized

  • Lightweight tracking script (< 1KB gzipped)
  • Asynchronous loading, never blocks page rendering
  • Efficient database queries with proper indexing
  • Caching strategies for frequently accessed data
  • CDN-ready for global deployment

Built for the Web We Believe In

Telemetry isn't vaporware or a distant dream. It's a fully functional platform crafted with love for creators, developers, and anyone who believes in a more transparent web.

The Philosophy

In an era where tech giants turn users into products and analytics platforms spy on your visitors, Telemetry takes a stand. We believe that understanding your audience and respecting their privacy are not mutually exclusive goals.

This is analytics reimagined: honest, transparent, and humane.

Use Cases

Content Creators Track which blog posts resonate with your audience without invasive tracking.

Independent Developers Monitor your project's website traffic and conversion rates with full data ownership.

Small Businesses Understand customer behavior without enterprise-level costs or complexity.

Privacy Advocates Prove that privacy-respecting analytics can be both powerful and practical.

Agencies & Freelancers Manage multiple client websites from one dashboard with white-label potential.

Join the Movement

Telemetry is more than software, it's a statement. A declaration that the web can be both insightful and respectful, powerful and private. We've built it. We're using it. And we're inviting you to be part of something better.

Whether you want to use Telemetry for your own sites, contribute to the codebase, or simply spread the word about privacy-respecting analytics, you're welcome here.

Let's prove that a more beautiful and honest internet isn't just possible it's here.

Notes

  • Fully functional and deployed (live production application)
  • Open source with MIT license
  • Self-hostable with Docker support
  • Cookieless tracking, no consent banners needed
  • GDPR and CCPA compliant by design
  • Lightweight tracking script (< 1KB)
  • Real-time dashboard with interactive visualizations
  • Multi-site support for managing multiple properties
  • GitHub OAuth for authentication
  • Comprehensive API documentation included
  • Active development with planned features (real-time events, custom dashboards, API access)
Telemetry

Project Timeline

Created:27/12/2025
Last Updated:19/01/2026
    Telemetry | From Scratch