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Looks good! We removed analytics from our sites for privacy and simplicity reasons so I’ll consider this. Does it use JavaScript clientside or hook up to express or nginx or both?

Before google analytics I remember there were a few self hosted tools in this space. Would you mind adding a list of the most current ones that people are using? I need to get caught up.

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Couple of ones I can think of:

Fathom: https://github.com/usefathom/fathom

Goatcounter: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter

Freshlytics: https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

There's also a non-oss but privacy focussed analytics - http://simpleanalytics.com

Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Freshlytics

You may want to add Countly (for both web and mobile) to that list (https://github.com/countly/countly-server) - which can be deployed on DO easily as well for free (https://marketplace.digitalocean.com/apps/countly-analytics)

Snowplow is another: https://snowplowanalytics.com/products/snowplow-open-source/

Ackee uses a JS snippet to get the data. Nginx logs won't work, but the API is fully documented and it should be possible to build an import / custom script. Could also work with express.

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