Analytics

Matomo (see below) turned out to be very resource-heavy. Awstats is enough for what we need anyway. We just need to know how busy the site is generally. Awstats simply reads the existing logs and presents them in an understandable format.

https://clickforcharity.net/awstats/

For all our sites, we don’t need SEO or any of the other stuff designers have to do normally, and so, luckily, Awstats is all we need.

Awstats config location

E.g., to ignore a certain IP address:
My Files/domains/DOMAIN.COM/awstats/.data/awstats.DOMAIN.COM.conf
E.g., Uptime Kuma is 89.116.44.57, use SkipHosts="89.116.44.57"

Below Is Redundant

Matomo can do anything that we need that Google Analytics can do, but without compromising the security of our users. We can control what data it collects, even down to the level of location tracking (country, region, etc.).

  • We can install it easily on each site using Softaculous, so there is no other domain involved. No cross-site scripting, etc.
  • We will know exactly what data we are collecting and thus be able to make a meaningful “privacy policy” page.

Matomo is installed at stat.satoshihost.com [July 2024: abandoned this because it was slowing down the page loads]
It says “Google Tag Manager was detected on your website.” So although we are not using it, it’s still there; we need to get rid of it.