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Runlight
Stop renting your website analytics.
Runlight is free, open source analytics that runs inside your own app. No third-party script, no monthly bill, no handing visitor data to someone else’s servers. Drop it into WordPress, Craft CMS, Drupal, or almost any stack (Node, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, and more), and you get clean, privacy-friendly stats you actually own.
Runlight is free, open source web analytics that lives inside your app.
I run a lot of sites, and every new launch meant another analytics account, another third-party script, and another monthly bill. Analytics felt like something my apps should handle on their own, so I built Runlight to do exactly that.
You install it like any other package, add one route and one script tag, and every visit gets recorded in the database you already have (SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Turso, or D1. Clickhouse support is there too!)
The script is under 2 KB, posts to your own domain so ad blockers leave it alone, and sets no cookies. No cookie banner, nothing personal stored, no third party to trust with your visitors. It shows you:
Who’s on your site right now
Where visitors came from, grouped into search, social, email, campaigns, and AI
Which visits came from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
AI agents and crawlers reading your pages, even though they never run JavaScript
Goals, conversions, and the revenue behind them, along with visitor journeys
Clicks on short links you create on your own domain
It works with TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, .NET, Elixir, and Rust, and plugs into Next.js, Rails, Laravel, Django, Phoenix, and a bunch more. There are also plugins for WordPress, Drupal, and Craft CMS.
A few extras I’m happy with:
A one-page dashboard that mounts in your app at /runlight
Weekly or monthly email reports sent through your own email provider
An MCP server so Claude or Cursor can answer questions about your stats
A setup prompt you can paste into your coding agent to wire it all up
If your stack isn’t supported yet, tell me which one. Thank you :)
About Runlight on Product Hunt
“Stop renting your website analytics.”
Runlight was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 7 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #37 on the daily leaderboard. Runlight is free, open source analytics that runs inside your own app. No third-party script, no monthly bill, no handing visitor data to someone else’s servers. Drop it into WordPress, Craft CMS, Drupal, or almost any stack (Node, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, and more), and you get clean, privacy-friendly stats you actually own.
On the analytics side, Runlight competes within Open Source, Analytics, GitHub and Data & Analytics — topics that collectively have 291k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Runlight performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Runlight?
Runlight was hunted by Jon C. Phillips. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Runlight including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Jon C. Phillips
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Runlight is free, open source web analytics that lives inside your app.
I run a lot of sites, and every new launch meant another analytics account, another third-party script, and another monthly bill. Analytics felt like something my apps should handle on their own, so I built Runlight to do exactly that.
You install it like any other package, add one route and one script tag, and every visit gets recorded in the database you already have (SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB, Turso, or D1. Clickhouse support is there too!)
The script is under 2 KB, posts to your own domain so ad blockers leave it alone, and sets no cookies. No cookie banner, nothing personal stored, no third party to trust with your visitors. It shows you:
Who’s on your site right now
Where visitors came from, grouped into search, social, email, campaigns, and AI
Which visits came from ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
AI agents and crawlers reading your pages, even though they never run JavaScript
Goals, conversions, and the revenue behind them, along with visitor journeys
Clicks on short links you create on your own domain
It works with TypeScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Go, Java, .NET, Elixir, and Rust, and plugs into Next.js, Rails, Laravel, Django, Phoenix, and a bunch more. There are also plugins for WordPress, Drupal, and Craft CMS.
A few extras I’m happy with:
A one-page dashboard that mounts in your app at /runlight
Weekly or monthly email reports sent through your own email provider
An MCP server so Claude or Cursor can answer questions about your stats
A setup prompt you can paste into your coding agent to wire it all up
And it’s free and open source, MIT licensed. Code’s on GitHub: https://github.com/runlightsh/runlight
I’d love feedback, issues, and PRs.
If your stack isn’t supported yet, tell me which one. Thank you :)