I like this blog post and I support anyone who removes a third party tracker from their site. There are companies that live and die by analytics and demographi

I like this blog post and I support anyone who removes a third party tracker from their site. There are companies that live and die by analytics and demographics but your personal blog doesn't need the information that GAnalytics sucks up. GoAccess (suggested in a article) is a fine choice, although I found it did not do a good job of filtering out bot hits. For most people this might not be a big deal but it annoyed me. In the end I just wrote[0] a simple hit counter that triggers off a js beacon. [0] https://github.com/andrewstephens75/visitlog https://github.com/andrewstephens75/visitlog