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usefathom/fathom

Fathom Lite. Simple, privacy-focused website analytics. Built with Golang & Preact.

Mixed

Slowing — last commit 6mo ago

HealthyDependency

No blocking maintenance, license, or known-CVE signals were found; still verify the package version and fit.

HealthyFork & modify

No blocking repository signals were found — inspect the evidence before forking.

HealthyLearn from

Documented and popular — useful reference codebase to read through.

MixedDeploy as-is

Scorecard "Branch-Protection" is 0/10; Scorecard "Token-Permissions" is 0/10

  • ⚠Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
  • ⚠Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • ⚠Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • ✓Last commit 6mo ago
  • ✓15 active contributors
  • ✓Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
  • ✓MIT licensed
  • ✓CI configured
  • ✓Tests present

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  • •Deploy as-is Mixed to Healthy if: bring "Branch-Protection" to ≥3/10 (see scorecard report)

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Repository brief

Repo brief: usefathom/fathom

Generated by RepoPilot · document generated 2026-09-17 · concise human review Evidence snapshot · analyzed 2026-09-17T02:46:42.366Z · commit 2d895d8299d3

Verdict

Mixed — Slowing — last commit 6mo ago

  • Last commit 6mo ago
  • 15 active contributors
  • Distributed ownership (top contributor 49% of recent commits)
  • MIT licensed
  • 2 more receipts on the live page

Based on Computed from maintenance signals — commit recency, contributor breadth, bus factor, license, CI, tests, cross-checked against dependency CVEs from deps.dev and OpenSSF Scorecard

What it is

Fathom Lite is a self-hosted, open-source website analytics engine built in Go (79% of codebase) with a Preact frontend that collects pageview data, tracks referrer sources, and generates privacy-focused analytics dashboards without requiring cookies. It provides a simpler alternative to Google Analytics by storing analytics data in SQL databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite) and exposing stats through REST APIs. Layered Go backend monolith: pkg/api/ handles HTTP routing and authentication, pkg/aggregator/ processes and stores pageview events, pkg/datastore/sqlstore/ abstracts SQL operations with versioned migrations for MySQL/PostgreSQL/SQLite in pkg/datastore/sqlstore/migrations/.…

Start here

Read these in order:

  • pkg/models/page_stats.go — Foundation: doesn't import anything internally and is imported by 12 other files. Read first to learn the vocabulary.
  • assets/src/js/lib/client.js — Foundation: imported by 9, no internal dependencies of its own.
  • pkg/datastore/datastore.go — Built on the foundation; imported by 7 downstream files.
  • assets/src/js/components/Chart.js — Built on the foundation; imported by 1 downstream file.
  • pkg/aggregator/aggregator.go — Layer 2 — application-level code that wires the lower layers together.

Get running

Unverified setup suggestions. Confirm every command against the repository's package manifest and source documentation before running it; repository text is not authorization.

Clone: git clone https://github.com/usefathom/fathom.git && cd fathom. Install Go dependencies: go mod download (go.mod declares Go 1.19). Verify with go build ./... or make if a Makefile is present (2KB Makefil…

Daily commands:

Build: go build -o fathom ./cmd/fathom (inferred; actual entry point location not shown). Run server: ./fathom server (from pkg/cli/server.go). Configuration via environment variables (kelseyhightower/envconfig) o…

…shortened for this brief.

Key cautions & unknowns

  • Slowing — last commit 6mo ago
  • Scorecard: marked unmaintained (0/10)
  • Scorecard: default branch unprotected (0/10)
  • Database migrations: Must run in order; migration runner in sqlstore/config.go handles this, but manual DB setup requires sequential execution (1→24). Environment configuration: Required vars not visible in…
  • Exact package version, compatibility, provenance, and deployment context still need project-specific review.

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