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I've been very happy with goatcounter on my personal site for 2 years now

Goatcounter is exactly what I need, nothing more, nothing less.

Thanks for pointing this out. It's the first free analytics service for personal blogs, websites I've seen recently. The rest is subscription based and useful for revenue-generating businesses.

The author seems to have the same itch when went to create this product: https://www.goatcounter.com/why

I found this 'pay what you want' alternative in my bookmarks: https://counter.dev/

Our approach is to be free and sustainable by radically cutting down hosting costs. Most technical solutions are mentioned in the Github page. Apart from this honestly the product is well polished and easy to use. Check it out :-)