There is a privacy-first alternative called: https://simpleanalytics.com/

SadWebDeveloper · on Feb 10, 2022

Here is another a privacy-first alternative that works with a cloud subscription: https://awstats.sourceforge.io/

If your needs exceed the data analyzed by it then you should consider rethinking your "analytics model".

jmnicolas · on Feb 10, 2022

The cheapest plan is 19€ / month which is twice what I pay for my VPS. Not realistic. It's very easy to rack up bills while building a website: hosting, domain name, Wordpress plugins, analytics, publicity etc

I don't have analytics yet on my site (it's a very recent side project). I didn't want to go the Google route because ethics, now I don't even have the choice (I'm French).

I looked at the self-hosted options but it seems overly complicated (I'm afraid installing them on my VPS will kill perfs), so now I'm considering just writing a script to parse Apache's logs.

TomGullen · on Feb 10, 2022

So what primary key are these other analytics using if not IP? (Their docs say they don't store IPs but do store user agents). It looks like it's based on browser fingerprinting - if I'm right OK it's not an IP but it's not much better and if things keep going the way they are pretty sure this will be up for the chop in the future.