Matomo VS AWStats

Matomo just released their major v5 upgrade with following key improvements:

There are many good, lightweight, and open-source alternatives to Google Analytics, such as Plausible, Matomo, Fathom, Simple Analytics, and so on. Many of these options are open-source, and can be self-hosted.

You can for example use analytics that aren't spyware, and hence don't even have to try to trick users giving "consent" to things they don't really want.

Seriously: what share of people actually want their behavior to be tracked for ad companies to make more money?

https://matomo.org/

Matomo is a GDPR-compliant and open-source analytics platform. You can either host it yourself or use Matomo’s hosted version. https://matomo.org/

I tried the self-hosted version of Matomo [1][2] a few years back but I remember it was a bit underwhelming for the effort required to set it up.

https://matomo.org

It seems like you just want a self hsoted google analytics. Theres Plausible , Matomo and Umami for that.

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/