There are two ways to run this: as hosted service on goatcounter.com, free for non-commercial use, or run it on your own server. The source code is completely Open Source/Free Software, and it can be self-hosted without restrictions.
Privacy-aware; doesn’t track users with unique identifiers and doesn't need a GDPR notice. Fine-grained control over which data is collected. Also see the privacy policy and GDPR consent notices.
Integrate on your site with just a single script tag:
This project aim is to serve many users for free in a sustainable way.
Usually web analytics solutions track every page loaded. We only track the first page the user views, this is again more privacy-friendly and additionally also results in substantial less HTTP requests the server has to handle.
don't love this; would prefer to know exact pages that people visit even if I don't know who it is
must be non creepy. no google.
see: Open Source Google Analytics
option 1: goatcounter
arp242/goatcounter: Easy web analytics. No tracking of personal data.
option 2: counter.dev
ihucos/counter.dev: Web Analytics made simple