Ask HN: Best alternative to Google Analytics?

At the moment only offers basic traffic analytics, but it's very simple and has a docker image if you want to host your own instance.

There is also a one click image for digital ocean, you can set this up on the smallest droplet ~$5 a month I think.

As for ethical, I have no idea

How about self hosted, open source Countly? It’s for both web and mobile: https://github.com/countly/countly-server

I just do log analysis, usually manually but on and off using some tool like awstats, goaccess, etc.

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