Vincent Bernat: Bot-free self-hosted analytics with GoatCounter on NixOS

In 2016, I removed Google Analytics from this blog to avoid being complicit in feeding the biggest machine for harvesting personal data. Instead, I relied on GoAccess to analyze my server logs.1 For the past couple of years, the statistics have made no sense, despite my attempts to filter bots: AI scrapers inflate the number of visitors to around 2,000 per day. Eventually, I settled on GoatCounter, an open-source, privacy-friendly web analytics platform. I replaced the JavaScript client to filter bots…

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