Simple, Privacy-Friendly, and Free Analytics Using Serverless Functions

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Fathom Analytics

Cost -- If you're looking to add analytics to something like a personal site, this is probably your biggest problem. Modern, privacy-focused analytics products like Fathom Analytics, Plausible Analytics and Netlify Analytics give you ways to avoid many or even all of the other problems on this list, but they're not free -- and there's nothing wrong with that, but I can't justify paying a monthly subscription just to see how many people read my blog posts, and you probably can't either.

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Plausible.io

Cost -- If you're looking to add analytics to something like a personal site, this is probably your biggest problem. Modern, privacy-focused analytics products like Fathom Analytics, Plausible Analytics and Netlify Analytics give you ways to avoid many or even all of the other problems on this list, but they're not free -- and there's nothing wrong with that, but I can't justify paying a monthly subscription just to see how many people read my blog posts, and you probably can't either.

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Matomo

One way to get around this could be self-hosting an open-source analytics product like Matomo Analytics, but unless you already have somewhere you can put that without incurring any extra costs, that costs money, too.

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