GoatCounter is awesome
- It's free
- It counts unique page views
- It (probably) doesn't require a consent notice 🎉
Seriously. It's much easier than setting up Google Analytics and configuring a cookie consent popup. It's also more user-friendly (due to the lack of said popup).
Here are some screenshots of the GoatCounter dashboard information that you could expect to see:
GoatCounter is a page view counter. It does that quite well. It is not a marketing analytics tool to track user behavior with custom events across sessions. For me, that's perfect. If you have a demo site, if you're publishing a static site blog, if you're experimenting with new web APIs on GitHub Pages, or anything else where you just want a good page counter consider GoatCounter. So far I like it. The lack of a required GDPR consent notice is 🤩awesome. It's literally just a <script> tag with nothing else needed.
P.S. GoatCounter also offers an <img> tracking pixel counting mechanism if you don't like JavaScript
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