Liwan is an open-source, self-hosted web analytics platform distributed as a single self-contained binary. It tracks website traffic without cookies, cross-site tracking, or persistent identifiers, and all collected data stays on the operator's own server. It provides a real-time dashboard showing page views, visitor groups, and referrers, with obvious bots and crawlers filtered out by default.
What it's for
Tracking website page views and traffic in real timeViewing visitor groups and referrersRunning privacy-friendly analytics without a cookie bannerSelf-hosting analytics on personal or low-cost hardware
Features 15
- All data stored on the operator's own server
- Automatic filtering of obvious bots and crawlers
- Fully open source under a permissive license
- No cookies used
- No cross-site tracking
- No database or complex setup required
- No persistent identifiers
- Page view tracking
- Real-time traffic dashboard that updates automatically
- Referrer tracking
- Runs on low-power hardware such as a cheap VPS, old Mac mini, or Raspberry Pi
- Single self-contained binary for setup
- Small tracking script snippet compatible with any website
- Visitor group tracking
- Written in Rust using tokio for async I/O
At a glance
open sourceself-hostable
TypeWeb app
DeploymentSelf-hosted
PlatformsWeb
No company, integrations, or compliance data published yet.
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