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by velcrovan 2610 days ago
I've been planning to switch to goaccess (from piwik/matomo) for my personal sites. Do you have any tips? Generally I just want to know trends in unique pageviews/visitors; whether any page in particular is seeing a lot of referred traffic and from where, and what paths people are taking through the site once they arrive. I like the purity of going solely with log analysis, but I'm a bit concerned I won't get quite as much visibility.
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I'd say start with the basic command of goaccess and then you can add extra options to the command line as needed. We have ours on a big display at our office running real time with only the most relevant panels that fit our needs.

Overall the stats are pretty accurate, we did some tedious/manual analysis of our weekly access log and the counts displayed by goaccess are on a par with our data results.