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Ask HN: What do you use for analytics for a statically generated website?

16 points by tombert 20 hours ago | 21 comments

I recently deployed a Hugo blog that I'm locally hosting. I would like to know roughly how much traffic it's getting (almost nothing except friends right now, but I still would like some data).

Obviously I could use Google Analytics or something, but I would rather not introduce any kind of Google tracking to my site. Honestly I think I'd be happy enough with one of those "counter" things from the 90's.

Does anyone here have anything? It's been forever since I've done anything like this, I'm sure the state of the art has advanced.

stefanos82 20 hours ago

GoAccess looks interesting; to be sincere, I haven't used it myself, but the demo website looks extremely fascinating to me! https://goaccess.io/

gumshoe30 19 hours ago

I use goaccess for analytics on my site. It was pretty simple to set up with nginx access logs.

wannabebarista 20 hours ago

Check out GoatCounter: https://www.goatcounter.com/.

I've used it for six years and am quite happy with it.

threekindwords 14 hours ago

I highly recommend Goatcounter! It’s a reliable tool with a great free version. You can even self-host it.

xcircle 17 hours ago

I also use GoatCounter for my Hugo page

reconnecting 17 hours ago

Check out tirreno: https://play.tirreno.com (admin/tirreno)

It's self-hosted, PHP/Postgresql, server-side. Plus, you can get a free tier with 1,000 API requests/month if you want to enrich data about your IP visitors. As a co-founder, I believe it's one of the most advanced solutions available. (-;

If not joking, I use tirreno for some personal websites with partly masked IP as it shows very interesting insights about bots and their behavior.

Under 90s thing you probably mean is awstats (https://github.com/eldy/awstats). CERN and many other organizations continue to use it even now.

webpagealert 14 hours ago

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coronapl 19 hours ago

Since you are hosting your blog on your personal server, I would just go with Mixpanel or postHog. They are quite easy to integrate and they enable you to track some more specific events that might be relevant for you.

If you ever decide to host your blog on a cloud provider, Cloudflare provides nice and simple analytics.