The Story Behind WebOrbiton & PriviMetrics
WebOrbiton and PriviMetrics were born out of a simple but powerful idea:
privacy-first tools should be available even on shared hosting.
In a world where most modern platforms assume VPS servers, containers, and large budgets, we chose a different path — building lightweight, self-hosted tools that anyone can run.
Where it all started
Our journey began in 2024, while working on projects like Ixavence and MevaSearch. When MevaSearch went live in May 2025, we needed an analytics that aligned with our Privacy-First philosophy.
We chose Matomo. At first, everything worked well: fast pages, simple updates, and full data control. But as traffic grew, reality hit. On shared hosting, Matomo becomes heavy — database queries pile up, pages slow down, and user experience suffers.
At that point, we knew one thing:
privacy-focused analytics should not require powerful servers.
The birth of WebOrbiton
A few months later, MevaSearch started experiencing technical issues. We needed a way to show users whether the service was online and where failures occurred.
So we built WebOrbiton Monitor — a self-hosted status monitoring system designed for shared hosting:
No VPS. No databases. PHP & Cron jobs only.
To separate this tool from Ixavence, we created a new group — WebOrbiton Team — responsible for building and maintaining independent web infrastructure tools.
For analytics, we briefly used SimpleAnalytics. Its minimalism and privacy focus impressed us — only essential data, no tracking noise. But a new idea was already forming.
From UltraPage to PriviMetrics
By late 2025, Matomo had become a serious bottleneck for MevaSearch. We planned to switch to SimpleAnalytics — but then we asked ourselves:
We already build our own tools. Why not build our own analytics too?
This idea became UltraPage Analytics — originally a simple page-view and search counter designed for shared hosting.
But as the project evolved, it grew into something bigger: a lightweight, privacy-focused analytics.
It was renamed PriviMetrics.
The first public version (0.0.1) was released on December 29. With every update, new features were added — but the most important breakthrough was GeoFexCollector.
GeoFexCollector — privacy without IP tracking
Traditional analytics detect a user’s country by reading their IP address.
PriviMetrics does not.
GeoFexCollector analyzes browser and device data such as:
time zone
system locale
regional settings
This allows PriviMetrics to determine a user’s country without using IP addresses at all.
It even works through VPNs, because the system relies on the user’s real device environment — not their network.
This makes PriviMetrics one of the very few analytics systems that can provide geographic insights without tracking identities.
PriviMetrics 1.0 — a new era
On January 10, 2026, PriviMetrics reached a major milestone with the release of version 1.0.0.
Alongside stability and performance improvements, we introduced Trends — allowing users to:
view any individual week
analyze traffic changes from the very beginning
track growth over time
This release marked PriviMetrics as a production-ready, privacy-driven analytics built for real-world hosting environments.
