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Looking for the perfect web stats open source tool

Criteria

• obviously open source
• runs natively (as in: no need to run a Go program that launches a webserver)
• privacy friendly
• must run on FreeBSD

Candidates

I asked the question on Mastodon and got a few answers, but most if not all required to run their own webserver with Go, and secure it with e.g. NGinx, or were part of a much bigger project, making it complex to maintain. I wanted something simple.

Choice

In the end, I went for AWStats, which I used a lot in the past, and does exactly what I want.

It's also "non intrusive": just a bunch of scripts, and I'm not even using the CGI bit, I have a cron task generating static HTML files once an hour.

Here's how it looks like:

Tags: IT