Liwan
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The facts
Each one read from Liwan's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Authentication limit
- Password sign-in remains available after SSO is enabled, and the documentation describes SSO as the first release with more advanced authentication and account-management features planned for later releases.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Collection controls
- Operators can configure visitor grouping, geolocation detail, UTM attribution, session metrics, retention, and traffic drop rules.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Conversion funnels
- Nochecked 19 Sep 2026
- Data retention
- unlimitedchecked 19 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Liwan runs as a single binary or Docker container, with its dashboard and database built in and no additional services to manage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- SSO supports one external provider at a time: Google, Microsoft Entra ID, or a generic OpenID Connect provider.checked 12 Oct 2026
- IP processing
- The server uses the request IP during processing for visitor grouping, rate limiting, and optional geolocation, then discards it.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- Liwan says it does not store raw IP addresses, tracking cookies, cross-site visitor identifiers, full referrer paths, or ordinary page URL query strings and fragments.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Liwan is self-hosted web analytics that processes events on your server and stores them in your deployment.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Session metrics
- Optional session metrics include bounce rate, average time on site, entry page, and exit page; calculated durations are limited to 30 minutes.checked 12 Oct 2026
- SSO limitation
- Password sign-in remains available after SSO is enabled, and the documentation says more advanced authentication and account-management features are planned for later releases.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The site lists [email protected] as its contact email.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Tracking
- A small tracking script can be added with one line of HTML and works with any framework or CMS.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Traffic reporting
- Its dashboard shows most-visited pages, traffic sources, and changes over time, updates automatically, and filters bots by default.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Traffic reports
- Its dashboard shows most-visited pages, traffic sources, and changes over time, and updates automatically while filtering bots by default.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Visitor grouping
- Visitor grouping modes include accurate, network-based, and random per request, and the grouping salt rotates daily so groups do not persist across rotation periods.checked 12 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Installation platforms
- The single-binary installation page lists pre-built binaries for Linux x86_64 and ARM64, and macOS ARM64.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Install platforms
- The single-binary installation page lists prebuilt binaries for Linux x86_64 and ARM64 and macOS ARM64; the getting-started page also documents Docker and Docker Compose.checked 12 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The legal notice identifies Henry Gressmann as responsible for the Liwan site and lists an address in Fellbach, Germany.checked 12 Oct 2026
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