Ah, just recently had this problem! A person from the newspaper we write wanted to see page analytics, but I didn’t want to use Google Analytics or any other big analytics company.[1] My solution to this was Umami, which was extremely easy to self host and doesn’t collect a ton of information on visitors. I highly recommend checking out the Github repo below, which has a list of privacy respecting web analytics with their features & price.
I didn’t want to use them in part because it would contribute and encourage them profiting off the collection of users. Furthermore, it would increase cross-site tracking and Google’s monopoly on that. Plus, I didn’t need the extreme drill down that gives you info on each and every visitor. ↩︎