That's not as accurate as throwing around cookies and JavaScript, but I rarely check the log pages anyway, and when I do I'm less interested in raw numbers than I am in the relative performance of various pages. (And that's mostly just idle curiosity, e.g., are there some old articles that keep getting steady traffic from somewhere?)
On my personal web sites I'm using GoAccess, which is basically a new spin on a very old idea -- just analyzing the server's web logs.
https://goaccess.io
That's not as accurate as throwing around cookies and JavaScript, but I rarely check the log pages anyway, and when I do I'm less interested in raw numbers than I am in the relative performance of various pages. (And that's mostly just idle curiosity, e.g., are there some old articles that keep getting steady traffic from somewhere?)