First-party traffic analytics with no cookies, no JavaScript and no third party
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "active_analytics"
# config/routes.rb
mount ActiveAnalytics::Engine, at: "/analytics"Active Analytics vs Searchjoy
Active Analytics and Searchjoy both sit in analytics, but they solve different parts of it.
Thin comparison — they do not replace the same product. Kept readable, left out of search.
Searchjoy
Better knownSearch analytics made easy
No ratings yet# Gemfile
gem "searchjoy"
# config/routes.rb
mount Searchjoy::Engine, at: "/searchjoy"What Active Analytics does
Traffic analytics recorded server-side, in your own database, with a dashboard you mount. Page views, entry and exit pages Traffic sources: which domains and pages send you people A dashboard engine, mounted wherever you like No cookies, no JavaScript, no consent banner Because it records on the server, ad blockers and tracking-protection extensions cannot remove your numbers. Because it sets no cookies and collects no personal data, there is no consent banner to show. Those two facts together usually make the traffic figures more accurate than the hosted product they…
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Why you might pick it
- It also replaces Google Analytics, Plausible, and Matomo.
What Searchjoy does
Search analytics made easy Works with any search platform, including Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Sphinx, and Solr view searches in real-time track conversion rate week over week monitor the performance of top searches 665 stars on GitHub · MIT licensed · maintained by ankane. Source: <https://github.com/ankane/searchjoy
Side by side
Rows where the two differ are marked.
| Active Analytics | Searchjoy | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | Analytics | Analytics |
| Replaces (differs) | Google Analytics, Matomo, Plausible | — |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| GitHub stars (differs) | 514 | 665 |
| Gem (differs) | active_analytics | searchjoy |
| Mounts at (differs) | /analytics | /searchjoy |
| Member rating | — | — |
What each one gets off your invoice
Both replace
Nothing unique here.
Only Active Analytics
Only Searchjoy
Nothing unique here.
Questions
- What is the difference between Active Analytics and Searchjoy?
- Active Analytics and Searchjoy both sit in analytics, but they solve different parts of it.
- Can I mount both Active Analytics and Searchjoy in the same Rails app?
- Technically yes — engines mount at different paths — but they overlap, so running both usually means two sets of tables doing one job. Pick one.