GoAccess VS awesome-analytics

If one wants server-side metrics with a little more info than the author's "hacky little script", there's always goaccess [1], which functions in broadly the same way. I even use it with Firebase Hosting-hosted sites via [2] (which I wrote).

[1] http://goaccess.io/

[2] https://github.com/Silicon-Ally/gcp-clf

> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake.

GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/

Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing.

That said, I'd still say that the analytics solutions out there, especially self-hostable ones like Matomo, are quite nice and can have both UIs that are very easy to interact with for the average person (e.g. filtering data by date range, or by page/view that was interacted with), as well as have a plethora of different datasets: https://matomo.org/features/

I think it can be useful to have a look at what sorts of devices are mostly being used to interact with your site, what operating systems and browsers are in use, how people navigate through the site, where do they enter the site from and how they find it, what the front end performance is like, or even how your e-commerce site is doing, at a glance, in addition to seeing how this changes over time.

People have also said good things about Plausible Analytics as well: https://plausible.io/

Maybe, if it's just local and need just information, maybe https://goaccess.io is an option.

I run goaccess on a cron job and have paired it with a MaxMind GeoIP database so that you can see where people are coming from etc.

https://goaccess.io/

file on GitHub.

There is small programm for linux https://goaccess.io/

I heard about https://goaccess.io/ (and even tested it) but first, nothing about tracing logs, and I think that the provided HTML dashboard isn't enough security-oriented for me but it's more about monitoring your customer volume... It does -partially- fit my case.

Loved AWStats! Still can be useful — but bots, client side caching, CDNs, and did I mention bots..? have made the data hard to rely on for much. A while ago I switched from AWStats to GoAccess (https://goaccess.io/) for this kind of thing. I prefer its interface, and it's way way faster to churn through big log files (C vs. Perl).

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.

GoAccess is a powerful web log analyzer that generates real-time web traffic statistics.

This is a great list of everything available Awesome Analytics. But I just wondered if anyone had been through a similar exercise that could help me get to a short list...I'm a bit biased towards things I already know and use...

Anything under here might help.

Matomo, plausible, goatcounter, shynet, umami, simple analytics. These are just the ones I know off the top of my head. Not all of these are cookie-less AFAIK. There are also lists like this.

And many more: https://github.com/0xnr/awesome-analytics

Not a lawyer.

If you do not need GA why use it? It is a separate connection your visitors browser needs to open and it is a connection to a third party. If you want analytics, there are some privacy options, for example Umami. See also here: https://github.com/0xnr/awesome-analytics

You could also disable the Nginx logs from logging IP addresses and then you should be fine.

Maybe adding a simple site saying that you do not retain any IPs or other information, you can prevent these emails in the future.

You can find here a huge list:

https://github.com/onurakpolat/awesome-analytics

https://github.com/awesome-selfhosted/awesome-selfhosted/blo...