How I Built My Own Laravel Analytics Package (and Almost Didn't Crash Production)
Oleksii Antoniuk discusses his decision to create a custom analytics package for Laravel after moving away from Google Analytics. He highlights the challenges posed by GDPR and the limitations of existing analytics tools. The new package, named oleant/laravel-visit-analytics, aims to provide lightweight and privacy-respecting analytics directly within Laravel applications.
- ▪The author decided to abandon Google Analytics due to GDPR compliance issues and user consent challenges.
- ▪He explored various analytics tools but found them either too complex or not suitable for his needs.
- ▪The custom package he developed is lightweight and integrates seamlessly with Laravel, allowing for easy installation.
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| Original publisher | DEV.to (Top) |
| Canonical URL | https://dev.to/alantalex/how-i-built-my-own-laravel-analytics-package-and-almost-didnt-crash-production-l75 |
| Publication time | Thu, 21 May 2026 21:56:48 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-21T22:01:35.754Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-21T22:01:35.754Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | KSa9bJ69qeL9 |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 3865097) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } Oleksii Antoniuk Posted on May 21 How I Built My Own Laravel Analytics Package (and Almost Didn't Crash Production) #laravel #php #privacy #webdev Why Not Google Analytics? (Or why I love reinventing the wheel) To be honest, this wasn't an easy call. I’ve been in development for quite a while and had grown accustomed to GA. What could be simpler: you slap a script with your ID onto the site, and data starts flowing into the analytics console.
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