I was upgrading Piwik at the end of last year when the automated update process corrupted itself. I haven't been a fan of the project for a while now, so this was the final straw for me. I did what any sane developer would do and wrote my own Analytics module for Dobrado:



It doesn't do much yet, and I don't know if that will change soon. All I was interested in from Piwik was total traffic, to get an idea of load on a web server, and any referers that don't get picked up by webmentions. I'm not sure what to do about bots, they make up most of the hits but are tricky to filter out. Despite the noise, they also reflect what the server has to put up with.

Even as it is I'm happy with it, and removed piwik's javascript tracker from my sites even before I had a way to view my newly logged data. I was never happy with the extra network request, which always took the longest when loading a page. This module just runs a counter as requests are made, and tries not to store too much as it currently never removes anything.