Having moved from Google Analytics to Counter: Counter is open source and minimal. I'm not sure what kind of performance impact Google Analytics had on my blog,

Having moved from Google Analytics to Counter: Counter is open source and minimal. I'm not sure what kind of performance impact Google Analytics had on my blog, but I knew it was less, and I knew that the data counter tracked felt like less of a privacy issue for my users than the excessive proprietary tracking setup from Google. I also love that there aren't 380 different pages of nothing to look at, I only see the info I actually want to see and I get out of there instead of staring at my stats. I use managed hosting for my blog and didn't want to host and manage my own analytics backend, so all of those tools were also, obviously, a no-go. And my blog is a personal project, I'm never, ever going to pay for analytics, that's insane. I don't know why I would care about how "proven" an analytics tool is, considering how little analytics matter to me in the first place. It's just cute to get an idea of how many people are looking at my blog.