# Server Side Analytics with GoAccess

DevFeed: [Server Side Analytics with GoAccess](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/server-side-analytics-with-goaccess-30598.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://ryanharter.com/blog/2020/06/server-side-analytics-with-goaccess/>)

Published: 2020-06-21T09:01:33Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Blogs on Ryan Harter](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blogs-on-ryan-harter.md>)

Topics: [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>), [Web Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/web-development.md>)

Tags: [analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/analytics.md>), [cloudflare](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloudflare.md>), [firebase](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/firebase.md>), [github-actions](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/github-actions.md>), [google-analytics](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/google-analytics.md>), [hugo](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hugo.md>), [privacy](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/privacy.md>), [server](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/server.md>)

## AI overview

The author explains replacing Google Analytics on a hobby Hugo site with server-side analytics based on access logs. The approach can show page requests and limited aggregate information such as readers' operating systems without using browser-based JavaScript to track individuals across the internet. Cloudflare's analytics were considered but did not provide page-level access numbers, leading the author to GoAccess.

## Source excerpt

When I updated my blog about a month ago, my primary goals were to simplify and modernize things. I updated to the latest version of Hugo, which powers by blog, added automatic deployment of new posts using GitHub Actions, and moving away from my previous hosting provider, Firebase, which was far more than was needed to host my simple, static site. One of those simplifications was removing Google Analytics from my site. I, like many others, have become more and more aware of the privacy trade offs that I've often overlooked in technology. Once I examined my need for Google Analytics in my site it became clear that I hardly even use it, and decided that it isn't worth pumping information about the behavioral patterns of my readers into Google's big data machine.