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goaccess vs LittleLink
goaccess has 20,930 GitHub stars, 1,193 forks, 449 open issues and last shipped 2 days ago. LittleLink has 3,084 stars, 1,536 forks, 1 open issues and last shipped 2 months ago. goaccess leads on adoption by 579% (20,930 vs 3,084 stars). goaccess is written in C under MIT; LittleLink is written in HTML under MIT. goaccess has attracted 6% as many forks as stars, LittleLink 50%. goaccess was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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| goaccess | LittleLink | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 21K | ★ 3.1K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | C | HTML |
| Last push | 2026-09-16 | 2026-07-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 1.2K | ⑂ 1.5K |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick goaccess if
- You weight community size — 21K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches C
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick LittleLink if
- You want the LittleLink feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches HTML
- You evaluated both and LittleLink fits your workflow better
About goaccess
GoAccess is an open source, real time web log analyzer and interactive viewer written in C and released under the MIT license. It parses web server logs and renders the results either in a terminal on nix systems or through a browser, updating every panel and metric every 200 milliseconds in the terminal output and every second in the HTML output. The project has been developed for roughly thirteen years and lives in the nix command line ecosystem, with a cluster of topics around analytics, Apache, Caddy, dashboards, and command line tooling.
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About LittleLink
LittleLink is a lightweight, self hosted link in bio project in HTML and CSS, released under the MIT license. It is a DIY alternative to Linktree in the marketing and customer engagement ecosystem, where users collect public links in one page. The project solves the problem of presenting multiple branded destinations without a hosted service or a large framework, because a user can fork the repository, edit basic HTML, and publish on their own infrastructure.
read the full LittleLink overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is goaccess or LittleLink more popular?
goaccess has 20,930 GitHub stars and LittleLink has 3,084. goaccess has the larger community by that measure.
Are goaccess and LittleLink free?
Both are open source. goaccess is licensed under MIT and LittleLink under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between goaccess and LittleLink?
goaccess is written in C and LittleLink in HTML. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, goaccess or LittleLink?
Choose goaccess if you want the larger community (20,930 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose LittleLink if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.