Implement Website Analytics

[haIIux]

Goal

The goal behind implementing website analytics is to determine overall website traffic in addition to strategicly tracking popular articles, content and more. Visitor privacy is important as we ideally will track no specific details regarding the visitor.

Options

• TelemetryDeck (Free)
  • Since this is a Swift based static site, TelemetryDeck should be able to be implemented quite easily using SPM.
• Netlify ($9.00 / mo)
  • This offers hosting for free, with analytics for $9.00 a month.
• Plausible ($9.00 / mo)
  • This was an option brought up by a member in the Discord. Unsure of complete implementation but I assume it's JS based.

[haIIux]

Another thought I had was maybe this could give us a chance to implement some sort of open-source project to add onto maybe Vapor. The user would simply host their own Vapor server and this would allow them to configure signals of their choice... that way everything is 100% self contained to that specific developer / development team?

Just some 2 cents.

[rjp2525]

Plausible and Fathom Analytics($14/mo) are both GDPR compliant/privacy-focused analytics platforms.

I've used Fathom for the sites I've built recently, unsure about an up to date Swift implementation but there is this one I found: samtgarson/FathomAnalytics