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bruce343434
It's not loading... I can only assume your server is hardly keeping up with the influx of traffic :D
thamer
Still not loading 4 hours later, the request to /get_analytics is not getting a response.

I assume it would time out eventually but I left the page after 30+ seconds without it returning anything.

mthwsjc_
It should be loading just fine, though it is slow at the moment. The good news is that the HN wave didn't cause any errors or break anything, the bad news is that the response time quadrupled and I'm not sure why yet.
sparkling
If you are looking for something that is a bit more privacy friendly and not a feature overkill, check out Plausible.io (not affiliated, just a happy customer). There is also a self-hosted option.
cdstyh
How does this compare to Momato
CallMeMarc
More of a marketing comparison than a technical one, but here you go: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

My main takeaways and why I personally use Plausible are their script is lightweight, it uses no cookies and therefore is by default GDPR compliant and it respects my visitor’s privacy by default. Also a big point, Matomo is way more complex than Plausible and personally overkill for all of my use cases.

stoicjumbotron
I've self hosted their analytics and the setup could not be simple enough! Their docs are amazing, the community is active and helpful and the docker upgrade commands are just below their version releases which is super helpful. Really happy with their product.
karmanyaahm
My site only has less than 100 views most months, so I use goatcounter the hosted version of which has a free tier (but can also self host)
iruoy
So with his own analytics, Cloudflare's server-side analytics, Cloudflare's Analytics script and Google Analytics he's got 4 different measurements now. And according to his follow-up article they all return different results.
mthwsjc_
yes. server-side must be the most accurate, but I'd still want a good way to filter out bots. for a site with a technical audience any general client side solution is too prone to blocking.
productceo
Have you tried Microsoft Clarity?

https://clarity.microsoft.com/

mthwsjc_
I haven't. The main motivation was to see if I could build an analytics tool, it wasn't really about getting better analytics. Though it was interesting to compare the different tools.
haxername
I literally just built my own analytics server too! It's got a different feature set, but still it was crazy to see this here today
mthwsjc_
cool! how did you do it? what was your approach?
lmas
Yeah same here, literally started to run it localy this morning. What's that psychological effect called when you suddenly see a thing everywhere?