The time to ditch GA was a long time ago, but over the years there wasn't even a single decent competitor that suits me.

I stumble upon Reinvigorate.net, it has potential, but it was acquired by Adobe if I remember correctly.

There was Gaug.es, it got acquired by Github, then it sat there and no more active development.

There was Gosquared, I cant remember why it didn't fit ( Needs to look again )

There was Clicky, one of the cheapest around, and does all tracking metrics you will need. Except the UI... doesn't really make you want to use it.

The two shown in the article, Simple and Fathom, were lacking way too many information. Browser, Resolution, Devices, Location etc.

The best thing that came out in the last few years were GoAccess. Self Hosted log analyser, except not everyone wants the hassle of setting it up.

The closest thing to something I want would be Ghostboard, unfortunately it only works for Ghost.