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Hi everyone,

I’m currently selfhosting a website that has quite an audience (~2 000 unique visitors/day) and I’m trying to measure that audience more precisely.

I just want to have a simple report of the most viewed pages, the most popular browser, etc… very very basic stuff.

I want to avoid client-side solution as they can and will very easily be blocked and render my effort completely useless. I had a Matomo until 2023 that registered less than half the visits when compared to my access logs.

I tried to look into GoAccess but it gathers a lot (and I mean A LOOOOOT) of chinese/indian/russian bots which are pretty difficult to filter out (if you have a method, please share it, I’m very curious!).

Is there any way you’re aware of to have decent stats without invading the privacy of my visitors or counting bots?

I’m currently selfhosting a website that has quite an audience (~2 000 unique visitors/day)

That’s something to crow about. Congrats on the site’s success.

I guess the project was abandoned but supposdly spirtually succeed by https://github.com/matomo-org/?footer

I’ve been using Actual for over a year and I really like it a lot. Full disclosure though, I don’t use any of the linking features and manually input all transactions.