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Depending on where you draw the line on "privacy", Matomo can also be hosted by you, if you don't mind the extra burden, and one installation can track multiple sites.

Edit: Not advocating in favour of Matomo, it's just that it is a solution which seems quite full featured. Personally I found it painful enough to work with it (from a devops perspective) that I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot stick.

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We do have an instance of Matomo installed for testing, but it still feels like just a self-hosted version of Google Analytics.

Way too many features that a person with a blog won’t need. Something simpler like Fathom or this one, which was built with privacy in mind from the get-go — instead of just “I want to get away from Google” —, seems like a better solution.

To be clear, I am not saying Matomo is a bad piece of software. Just that it does not feet our needs.

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