It would be nice if at some point @adam implemented simple statistics to show us how many visitors have visited and read our weblog posts. Nothing really sophisticated, just simple, naked visit counts…
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I’ve toyed around with simple metrics/analytics in the past, and it was always a bit of a challenge to do it right (especially with so much traffic/activity form bots, crawlers, etc.). I’d love to do this but I almost feel like it should be its own standalone service — something that can work with profile pages, weblogs, and other stuff too (and that can separate the bots from the real people!). I’ll noodle on the idea for a bit and see what happens!
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Maybe some way of using a self-hosted Plausible Analytics instance? They’re fully open source, and if you don’t want to manage it yourself, they of course have a hosted version. The code is here, and it seems to be a fairly lightweight solution. I don’t run it myself, so I don’t have any experience with it, but it seems like one of the best solutions.
Just my 2 cents!
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I haven’t yet tried setting it up with Weblog, but I am using Fathom Analytics on my profile page (as well as on other sites on the internet) and they are fantastic.
I do know that they also have a self-hosted version, but I’m happy to pay them to take care of it for me.
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