> [...] server logs don’t suffer from that problem. But they do suffer from extreme noise. RSS requests, bots, scrapers, you name it. There’s a lot of crap mixe

> [...] server logs don’t suffer from that problem. But they do suffer from extreme noise. RSS requests, bots, scrapers, you name it. There’s a lot of crap mixed with regular humans visiting my site. Looking at the raw logs is pretty pointless at any scale, unless you're investigating a specific production issue. There are analytics tools that ingest server logs, filter/aggregate the data, and make pretty dashboards. I used to use something that I found in the Debian repos long ago, can't remember the name now, coz > I do believe people with personal blogs shouldn’t care about analytics at all. Just focus on the content and ignore the rest. This.