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Static website analytics with no JavaScript using GoAccess

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51 pointsdanielkessl12 comments

I just run static site w/ nginx and have it periodically generate an html file... also served by nginx. I setup a cronjob to parse the last hours logs. U can see it in action: https://www.clusin.com/analytics/

If anyone's wondering why you would use a "no JS" approach when you're already using React, it's that this still works for NoScript users (assuming you either use a SSG like Next.js or use SSR).

Yes, this works with JavaScript disabled. I'm using React at build time to compose the pages, but there's no runtime scripts on the site.

Time to find next script blocking addon

I actually recently just build an app that allows you to run website analytics from aws amplify apps https://loshadki.app/cloudanalytics/

Works great with my hugo generated static websites.

Is there a way to filter out bad traffic like thinkphp and wordpress hack attempts?

Can it detect bot request?

Nice thing about JS is we can avoid request form curl/http lib etc.

goaccess has an option to ignore crawlers.

How does unique visitor tracking work without cookies? With IP address?

From GoAccess manual:

  HTTP requests containing the same IP, the same date, and the same user agent are considered a unique visitor.

Would you also have to set cache control headers?

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