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I think that analytics on small websites does not make sense anymore! A lot of people have adblockers these days and those often block Google Analytics for privacy reasons and also just for speed/less work.

Also with bots that execute javascript with Electron, it is nearly impossible to have correct metrics coming from anonymous users.

A better metric would be to measure newsletter signups, third-party client-side analytics is dead.

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Long live awstats, the perl script that you put in crontab to analyze your apache logs. I have like 15 years of data from this and it's still chugging along. Not overly beautiful but it gives me the first order metrics. Traffic, referrers. No google needed.

Edit: I guess this doesn't help with the anonymous bots issue.

I think you can find filter out all the good bots, but there is a large number of crawlers out there these days :)

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