I wish to see a line about backend platform on installation documentation. Yes, it's simple, but IMO no one will find "Umami requires bla bla platform on bla bla operating system." sentence useless.
From a quickscan of the GitHub repo [1], this is a JavaScript client, like Google Analytics, that sends data to a self-hosted Node.js backend that stores the data in MySQL or PostgreSQL using the Prisma database toolkit: