AWStats VS Open Web Analytics

Based on your requirements it sounds like AWStats [1] may be a fit. It's rather old-school but it's simple and works great on access logs and can be run on any node that you consolidate your logs to. It's had a sketchy security history so run it on something only you can access and/or put decent authentication in front of it.

[1] - https://github.com/eldy/AWStats

Back in my day it was awstats. Still works great. I have 18 years of data.

https://www.awstats.org/

matomo and goatcounter are nice, but there are even solutions which don't need any extra CPU or any extra client request:

• https://goaccess.io/

• https://www.awstats.org/

Both of them are free/open-source.

I have decided to do something with my Apache server's log file beautifiers and analytics. When I moved from Fedora to Windows I added Google Analytics and more or less forgot about the older Analog, AWStats, and Webalizer that I was using.

AWStats does something similar: https://www.awstats.org/

You get a full picture of traffic without relying on inserting JS into the page

AWStats or Webaliser are two really good ones for parsing Apache logs, but I've always loved Matomo for projects where I need more than just webserver logs.

Analytics? Web server logs + AWstats

Your httpd will likely have an access log (e.g. apache, nginx). If enabled you can do something as simple as say grep /page/you/are/interested/in /var/log/$httpd/access_log | wc -l etc or look at tools such as https://www.awstats.org/

Analytics services can also be self-hosted. While this is a more expensive solution from a management perspective, it is the solution that affords the greatest flexibility for implementing and enforcing privacy protections. There are many offerings in this space, including established projects like Matomo (formerly Piwik) and Open Web Analytics.

It depends on what metrics exactly the analytics want to aim. Maybe it's indeed better to dev something just for this use case. But as he said, “track it ourselves” I'll avoid Google solution and use something like Open Web Analytics (In general case, I don't use Google Analytics any more).

What it is: Open Web Analytics is an open-source web analytics platform that lets you analyze and track your site and app visitors. It offers flexibility to monitor your analytics with a simple and easy-to-use dashboard.

I was looking at Open Web Analytics the other day - seems it can be easily hosted on any hosting plan.

I thought the old self-hosted version was available on github. See how http://www.openwebanalytics.com/ does it.