Hey everyone,
Last week I started building something I needed — a simple, privacy‑respecting analytics dashboard for Django projects. Today it’s live on PyPI and GitHub.
It’s called django‑zaydany‑analytics.
What it does:
- Tracks page views, sessions, bounce rate, pages/session
- Shows referrers, browsers, OS, devices
- Has an offline world map (GeoLite2, no external API calls)
- Supports custom event tracking (just add data attributes to any element)
- Comes with 12 themes and 5 languages (including Arabic RTL)
- Exports every table to CSV/JSON
- Optionally shows billing data if you plug in your models
- Everything is configurable from a single
ZAYDANY_ANALYTICSdict in settings.py
The crazy part: I built this with almost no internet. Downloading the 60 MB GeoIP database took over 4 hours. Pushing this release cost a small piece of savings I had set aside for my main project. I couldn’t Google anything, couldn’t browse documentation — just worked offline with what I had.
Open source is what makes our work possible. This is my small contribution back.
Links:
- GitHub: GitHub - parsazaidane/django-zaydany-analytics: Privacy‑first, self‑hosted analytics dashboard for Django. Beautiful, configurable, and fully offline. · GitHub
- PyPI: django-zaydany-analytics · PyPI
- Install:
pip install django-zaydany-analytics
Feedback and stars mean the world to me. Thanks for reading!
