# Introduction

## What is Freshlytics?

It's a self-hosted privacy-friendly analytics service. It aims to be reliable, friendly to use and easy to deploy.

## Goals

Provide a way for website owners to learn more about how the users are using their site without invading user's privacy.

## Features

* Privacy
  * Cookies are not used
  * Personally identifiable information (PII) is not collected
* Dashboard
  * Switch between multiple projects
  * Slice the data within a date range
  * See the pageview in different dimensions like page urls, referrers, browsers etc
* Tracking
  * Currently focusses on website pageview tracking
  * Tracks visited page urls, referrers, browsers and browser versions
* Projects
  * Supports multiple projects
  * Different projects can have different reporting timezones
* Users
  * Users can either be Admin or normal users
  * Admins can create/edit/delete projects and other users

## System Requirements

* 1 CPU core and 1GB RAM should be sufficient for most usecases