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Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Liwan Web Analytics on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
Azure
Analytics
Liwan, a lightweight, privacy first web analytics server that measures your sites without cookies and reports visits in real time.
Overview
Liwan is an open source, self hosted web analytics server and a privacy first alternative to Google Analytics. It measures pageviews, unique visitors, referrers, entry pages, countries, browsers and devices, and presents them on a live dashboard that updates as visitors arrive. Tracking is cookie free and uses no persistent or cross site identifiers, so it needs no cookie banner and never profiles individuals, and every request is checked against a bundled bot and referrer spam list so automated traffic does not inflate your numbers.
You add a site by creating an entity and a project in the dashboard, then dropping in a single tracking script of about 1KB, under 1KB compressed, that the server hosts itself, so there is no third party script on your pages and no data leaves your machine. Projects group several sites into one view, dashboards can be kept private, published publicly or left unlisted behind a link, and additional user accounts can be granted access to only the projects they should see. It suits site owners, agencies and product teams who want fast, honest traffic figures on infrastructure they control.
Why the cloudimg image
cloudimg ships Liwan as a finished appliance: the server runs as its official prebuilt release binary, pinned and checksum verified, bound to the loopback interface with nginx as the only entry point on port 80, so the dashboard is reachable but the application port is not. It is secure by default and nothing usable is baked in: upstream leaves a fresh instance open for whoever reaches its setup page first, so cloudimg creates a unique administrator with a random password on the first boot of every instance, before the service is ever allowed to start, which permanently closes that setup path and means no two instances share a login. The credential is written to a file only root can read, and the service is held back by a boot gate until it exists. Analytics data lives on a dedicated disk captured into the image, so it is separate from the system disk and can be resized on its own, the base is fully patched with unattended security upgrades enabled, and every deployment is paired with a step by step deploy guide and backed by 24/7 cloudimg support.
Common uses
- Cookie free website analytics you host and control yourself
- Real time visitor, referrer and campaign reporting across several sites
- A privacy first alternative to third party analytics with no data leaving your server
See it running
Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.
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