I just hosted my little website about programming, I want to track some statistics and I immediately thought of Google Analytics but after research I found out about huge amount of hate for them and problems with GDPR and other law things. I am looking just for basic stats, should I really avoid GA?

• Matomo

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  Empowering People Ethically with the leading open source alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data. Matomo lets you easily collect data from websites & apps and visualise this data and extract insights. Privacy is built-in. Liberating Web Analytics. Star us on Github? +1. And we love Pull Requests!

  

What’s about https://matomo.org?

• django-request

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  django-request is a statistics module for django. It stores requests in a database for admins to see, it can also be used to get statistics on who is online etc.

  

I've used django-request for simple stats: https://github.com/django-request/django-request

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• GoAccess

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  GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.

I use https://goaccess.io/ to create simple statistics from log files. Enough to know which sites are visited the most and some basic statistics over usage.

• GoatCounter

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  Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.

  

Have a look at https://www.goatcounter.com/ - privacy minded, light, opensource friendly (you can install it yourself if you want), etc.

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