Ask HN: Server-side Analytics, and Tracking RSS?
I'm building out a blog at the moment using a static site generator I'm writing (in Pharen[0], if you're curious. Quite a lovely language actually!). I've created a script that will write out an Atom based RSS feed.
What I want to do is track subscribers, without relying on Feedburner or anything Google (after the reader debacle, I just don't trust them with my data). I also want to have a generic analytics service, self-hosted preferably.
Now, I've seen Piwik[1] and OpenWebAnalytics[2], which both look excellent. I'm more partial to the latter. However, they are only client-side as far as I can see, which means I can't inject anything into my RSS script to track readers!
Does anyone know of decent server-side analytics software, or client-side that I can send a request with the info to be tracked? Can OpenWebAnalytics perhaps do the latter?
If it has to be hosted, so be it, as long as it's not too pricey. I don't mind paying for quality.
Cheers!