Liwan
Privacy-first web analytics.
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Still maintained? Yes: 57 commits in the last 90 days, latest release liwan-v1.8.2 (Oct 2026).
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At a glance
Liwan quick facts
- Health score
- 89/100 GOOD
- Stars
- 219
- Last commit
- yesterday (Oct 2026)
- Latest release
- liwan-v1.8.2, Oct 2026
- Licence
- Apache-2.0
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In its own words
The project's README opens: "Understand your traffic See your most-visited pages, where visitors come from, and how traffic changes over time. The dashboard updates in real time, with bot filtering enabled by default."
Why it ranks here
Health score explained
Liwan scores 89/100, #13 of 33 in Analytics: 57 commits in the last 90 days earn 35.0 of 35 points, the latest release (liwan-v1.8.2, yesterday) earns 25.0 of 25, 219 stars add 9.4 of 20, an active, unarchived repository keeps 10 and Docker support adds the final 10. That places it in the good band (70 and above). The biggest shortfall is star count, worth 10.6 more points.
Recomputed nightly from the GitHub API. How the score is calculated.
- Commit activity 35.0 / 35
57 commits in 90 days (30+ scores full marks)
- Release recency 25.0 / 25
liwan-v1.8.2 released yesterday
- Stars biggest shortfall 9.4 / 20
219 stars on GitHub (logarithmic)
- Not archived 10.0 / 10
Repository is active
- Docker support 10.0 / 10
Docker image or Compose file available
Commit activity
- 57
- Last 90 days
- 149
- Last 12 months
- yesterday
- Last push
Ranked #13 of 33 tools in Analytics by health , between EDA (#12) and HitKeep (#14) .
Details
| Licence | Apache-2.0 |
| Platforms | Rust, Docker |
| Latest release | liwan-v1.8.2 · yesterday |
| Stars | 219 |
| Open issues | 8 |
| Docker | Yes |
| Repository | explodingcamera/liwan ↗ |
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Liwan: common questions
Is Liwan still maintained?
Liwan had 57 commits in the last 90 days and its last push was yesterday; the latest tagged release, liwan-v1.8.2, is from yesterday. Repoly recomputes this nightly.
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