A log counter on the backend will report the 1000 bots that visited your site as 1000 page views. But that won't give you any information on how well your posts

A log counter on the backend will report the 1000 bots that visited your site as 1000 page views. But that won't give you any information on how well your posts did. Bots are the reason I switched back from a free backend db based solution to google analytics.