This is the type of analytics I use - https://herman.bearblog.dev/public-analytics/. This particular dashboard is for the person who runs bearblog.dev, not me.

There is very little tracking here. Basically, it's just taking note of browser headers, a country-level location, and maybe (I would guess) hashed IPs for returning visitors. I don't know. Herman Martinus might comment on this more.

But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater! There are many good self-built analytics solutions that do a lot to protect the reader's privacy. And a lot of small web people do care not to track excessively. Not only out of their respect for privacy, but also as insurance against causing harm to anyone if a data breach occurs.

Not everyone is in the business of brokering creepy data like some tech giants.