From Google Analytics to Fathom
I'm still trying to find an affordable, reliable, privacy-conscious analytics tool for a blog.<p>I don't want to run my own server. I'm willing to spend money. I'd like to spend ~$5/mo. I write less than 6 posts per year. A good post gets tens of thousands of lifetime views. A mediocre post gets five to ten thousand. My server burden is pretty bare bones.<p>All I really want to know are page views and referrers. My next experiment is to use a custom "tracking pixel" served from S3 and use log tools. But I have no idea if webcrawlers will distort my data or not. This would at least allow me to reliably count page views even for people who use ad-blockers.<p>Edit: Blog is static design, hosted on Netlify free tier. <a href="https://www.forrestthewoods.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forrestthewoods.com/</a>