I think your title and your description may already show a little problem: You say you're lookin for a GA alternative, but what if GA was never the right tool f

I think your title and your description may already show a little problem: You say you're lookin for a GA alternative, but what if GA was never the right tool for your use case, to begin with? Your use case description is pretty minimal: > "I would like to see visitor numbers at times of day and probably a few more things in the future." GA is a very complex tool, that often is complete overkill for small sites. So when you ask for GA alternatives, you will probably hear Matomo as a suggestion – but this also is in the same area of complexity as GA and would probably not be a good fit for your project (and it wouldn't solve your cookie problem without proper configuration). So maybe a better question would be "What analytics tool should I use for project XYZ?" If you want a minimal approach, take a look at Umami (https://umami.is/ https://umami.is/), which is about as minimal as it gets (when talking about frontend JS analytics tools).