So I need a tiny bit of traffic analysis on my Ghost website, but like…tiny.
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@kissane Have you seen/considered Tinylytics? https://tinylytics.app/
I added Tinylytics to my site about a month ago to see if I can feel comfortable with even less than Plausible, and I definitely like it so far.
(The real standout feature for my particular use-case / fragile ego is Tinylytic's ability to let people add "kudos" to a post/page without logging in.)
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@kissane I'm happy with Matomo (formerly piwik) — possibly heavier than you need but FOSS, well maintained and privacy-friendly
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@dsalo GhostPro, I should have said!
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@kissane I use Pirsch, does the job, not a strong recommendation though because I’m sure there are others that are similar and also do the job.
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I should have clarified, I'm using GhostPro. I don't self-host anymore, my brain has too many things on it.
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@kissane https://matomo.org and https://umami.is are the other options I've looked at in the past.
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@ryanrandall Ooo thanks!
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@kissane I’ve definitely run into the problem that never track anything means you can’t like, honestly purchase a font
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@dingemansemark thank you!
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@gilhova Thank you!
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@simrob It's the silliest problem but I love the type designers and I want to do right!
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@kissane You could go SUPER basic with https://www.goatcounter.com which is open source and comes with a hosted version.
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@kissane how about just parsing your web servers logs? http://nginx.org/en/docs/syslog.html
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@kissane I'm starting to think we were onto something with website hit counters.
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@kissane I haven’t used all these, but researched a bit in the past. Could look at Countly, Piwik Pro”Core”, Umami.
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@000panther I'm not self-hosting, so I don't have them, alas.
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@kissane
Not sure if it's possible to add custom js to a GhostPro account, but perhaps this script might be worth a look:https://github.com/berthubert/audience-minutes
Another option, if you can download logs is:
I've used it to analyse webserver logs offline & create statistical reports for other people. This might be a bit much for what seem to seek?
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Fun factoid in my very first real computer job out of undergrad my title was "Web Master" (two words) and analyzing logs was a good chunk of what I did, along with faking a CMS in, iirc, Perl. (The real CMS was me.)
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@BjornW Thank you!
