Hacker News Reader

So, a dumb question. What's the easiest way to run privacy friendly analytics on static github pages? "Privacy friendly" as in unambiguously no need for cookie/gdpr permission popups. "Analytics" can be as simple as page loads per day count. Anything beyond that is a bonus.

View on HN

Put it behind CloudFlare free plan. You’ll get total uniques for the domain. No hosting or JS required.

I guess you can use any JS snippet integration available. There are plenty of alternatives:

https://european-alternatives.eu/category/web-analytics-serv...

I'm the co-founder of Pirsch (pirsch.io), so if you have any questions regarding analytics (any, not just ours), let me know. For our solution I can assure you that it's GDPR compliant and doesn't require a cookie consent banner.

Are those typically blocked by adblockers?

Yes, all of them. For a non-blockable approach you can use a proxy on your own domain or by using a server-side integration.

https://docs.pirsch.io/get-started/proxy

Reply on news.ycombinator.com