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I really want to move away from Google Analytics. But I have not found a viable alternative so far. I had settled for Piwik (Now Matomo) but I had to disable it when the server it was hosted on crashed when I received a burst of traffic.

GA gives me some good insights but I can live without it if I have an alternative that can safely handle large traffic on a budget.

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Check out Fathom Analytics. It's open-source, modern, only tracks aggregates and can handle up to 20.000 pageviews per second on a cheap $3/month VPS.

http://github.com/usefathom/fathom

There is a hosted version available if you don't want to take care of managing the installation yourself. You can always move to a self-hosted instance later on too, there is no lock-in there.

There is https://simpleanalytics.io which you can check if its feasible for you :)

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