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I think a big part of modern analytics is a Javascript component that runs in the browser. Javascript can help you tell crawlers from user agents and repeat cli

I think a big part of modern analytics is a Javascript component that runs in the browser. Javascript can help you tell crawlers from user agents and repeat clients from large school networks (which all have the same source IP). If you are not using Javascript, then just parsing Nginx/Caddy/Apache log files will give you the same information: https://github.com/josephernest/TinyAnalytics/blob/master/tracker.php#L17 https://github.com/josephernest/TinyAnalytics/blob/master/tr... Speaking of which, what compact datastore is recommended for this? A RRD?

josephernest 10y ago
This raw TinyAnalytics log is just temporary, and is digested every day into a summary and then removed. No need to go for a more complex DB than that I think. -- About the JavaScript part: yes it would be totally possible to add a JS tracker to TinyAnalytics (I'm currently thinking about adding one at the moment). You're right it would be interesting to add this. The main reason for which I did TinyAnalytics is to have a simple super quick dashboard, in which you see all your websites in a blink, without any click.