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Can you talk a little bit more about why server side logs aren't accurate for analytics? I was planning on doing basic analytics (pageviews mostly) using Cloudf

Can you talk a little bit more about why server side logs aren't accurate for analytics? I was planning on doing basic analytics (pageviews mostly) using Cloudfront access logs stored in an S3 bucket and queried through Athena for a site I'm working on which uses the AWS stack. I know Cloudfront logs can sometimes drop, but is there a more important reason you're talking about?

XCSme 6y ago
I think with server-side only is harder to filter bots, crawlers and get accurate bounce rates or session length times.
tobilg 6y ago
Shameless plug, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats