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Re:Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics by hackernewsn00b on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:32AM (#23562924)
Can you talk a little bit more about why server side logs aren't accurate for analytics? I was planning on doing basic analytics (pageviews mostly) using Cloudfront access logs stored in an S3 bucket and queried through Athena for a site I'm working on which uses the AWS stack.

I know Cloudfront logs can sometimes drop, but is there a more important reason you're talking about?

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Re:Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics by XCSme on Thursday June 18, 2020 @09:43AM (#23563020)
I think with server-side only is harder to filter bots, crawlers and get accurate bounce rates or session length times.
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Re:Lightweight Alternatives to Google Analytics by tobilg on Friday June 19, 2020 @02:03PM (#23577163)
Shameless plug, you might want to have a look at https://github.com/ownstats/ownstats
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