Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics

Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by ttd on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:14AM (#13687901)

For such simple metrics (visitor count and referral), wouldn't it be possible to use server-side tracking, e.g. by parsing an Apache access log? Are there any packages out there to do simple analytics without requiring client-side tracking?

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by tyingq on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:30AM (#13688048)

Webalizer, awstats, goaccess.

Goaccess is interesting in that it has both a live, terminal, curses interface as well as HTML output. https://goaccess.io

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by StavrosK on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:48AM (#13688196)

I've actually writing a post these days about this exact thing: Analytics alternatives to Google Analytics that are more private, more accurate and faster. It's a very interesting topic, GoAccess is my software of choice but it has some odd UX that is currently being worked on by the maintainer.

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by purrcat259 on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:06PM (#13689443)

I recently started a small project similar to goaccess, which brings up some quick statistics from nginx access logs, though nothing as polished as that!

https://github.com/purrcat259/peek/

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by rhizome on Monday February 20, 2017 @01:53PM (#13689858)

Analog also has an ad hoc reporting interface: http://www.c-amie.co.uk/analog/

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by davidcollantes on Monday February 20, 2017 @10:54AM (#13688250)

Wow, `goaccess` is beautiful! Thank you for sharing.

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Re:Show HN: Mirrorshades – Simple web analytics by pwenzel on Monday February 20, 2017 @12:21PM (#13689012)

Good point, but there are quite a few sites nowadays that are hosted on platforms with no immediate access to raw Apache logs, especially if your site is served by a CDN.

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