Many HN readers have no problem with 1st-party analytics (web developers collecting usage information on their own websites). Privacy problems become more of an

Many HN readers have no problem with 1st-party analytics (web developers collecting usage information on their own websites). Privacy problems become more of an issue for 3rd-party analytics providers, who can track browsers across all the sites using the same analytics provider. Piwik is probably the most widely-known option in this space. It is a more complete solution (including the reporting side) written in PHP; it also requires MySQL. http://piwik.org http://piwik.org LilBrother may be a nice option for developers to include in their existing node.js backend.