Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics

Posted Jul 11, 2020 21:10 UTC (Sat) by anarcat (subscriber, #66354)
In reply to: Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics by anarcat
Parent article: Lightweight alternatives to Google Analytics

> I record people for 7 days on my site, and shove the data into https://goaccess.io/ which sends me the result in a crappy email summary, without IP addresses. So I'm effectively keeping zero in the long term, although I *am* retaining *some* data in the short term.

An interesting addition to this...

It turns out that goaccess *does* record the IP addresses of visitors after processing, when the `VISITORS` panel is enabled. It shows the per-IP top visitors and therefore does keep PII, contrary to what I first believed. I tried to disable that panel (which I do not find very interesting anyways) but then it breaks visitor tracking in the rest of the reports, so that's definitely a problem.

I am, again, really interested in trying out goatcounter, then. :)