why not offer static content hosting like gitlab pages and give us the logs on that.

cut the js beacon middle man. ...I mean, I myself block your beacons and didn't even know before looking just now.

-- someone who just looked at recent vps prices for a small personal static site and went with gitlab "hosting" .

That is a complete valid technical solution if you can go trough the effort to do it. I'd recommend GoAccess, looks good but I have not used it myself. It's just that it can be cumbersome and a lot of people have websites but are not techies for example.