I realized that the #goAccess #web #analytics based on #nginx I use on #storySeedLibrary are pretty limited. Maybe too limited.
I'm considering to swapping to some JS-based ones, like Piwik or a similar #FLOSS solution.
Can you recommend anything?
Do you think that using JS-based analytics would compromise the privacy of the users?
The most fun since sliced bread (for server admins). Tuning caching parameters makes a world of difference, plus blocking any bot that is hammering your site.
tail -f access.log
What do people use for self-hosted website stats these days (i.e. that isn't Google!)
I used to use "webalizer" long ago, but it seems to be a dead project now.
I'd ideally like something that breaks out things like what bots are accessing sites and also anything that has any sort of threat metrics would be nice whilst I'm still having to host some wordpress shite.
Nice service, but frankly, most webpages would benefit from a robots.txt file with a single line:
Disallow: /
I.e., crawlers not welcomed.
Given the absurd amount of SEO-optimized, LLM-generated pages filling the top results from any search engine, one might as well attempt to delist one's website entirely and rely on direct links via social media and emails.
I was looking at twitter's robtots.txt, i find it very funny. Some of the robots no longer respect the robots.txt, but for example Google-Extended will respect it, this is the Gemini/Bard carwler.
Any Firefox website Wizards out there? Even though my website has a verified and valid (LetsEncrypt) SSL certificate, Firefox is reporting that "Parts of the webpage are not encrypted”.
I can't find any other information on why this is occuring, I do have a couple iframes in the page (alberniweather.ca) and lots of images including some that are hosted on Google cloud.
Any help is appreciated.
#Webhosting #WebAdmin #SSL
To webadmins out there: remember to test your .htaccess files. One easy way to check is on this online website, if its contents isn't sensitive:
https://htaccess.madewithlove.com
To test the regular expressions included in a mod_rewrite, there's this website that even has a stepping debugger:
Is there a way to convert your #Mastodon instance into a #Misskey instance? I very much prefer Misskey at the moment. #mastoadmin #misskeyadmin #web #webadmin
#Wordpress experts. I have a blog (www.alberniweather.ca) that is misbehaving. It has 2000+ posts. It has performed reasonably well on a shared web host (2CPU/2GB RAM) but lately when I post a new article it max’s out the server and returns 503 for 15-20min before returning to normal. I can’t afford to just buy more resources so I need to explore all other remedies. I have tried turning off plugins, caching, etc. Suggestions?
Thanks.
#AskFedi #FediHelp #WebAdmin
https://linuxgamingcentral.com/posts/plausible-analytics-and-why-you-should-use-it/
Plausible analytics is an open-source Alternative to Google analytics that webmasters can use to simple insights to your website's traffic and visitors without unduly compromising their (or your) privacy
@analytics #GoogleAnalytics #PlausibleAnalytics #Hosting #WebHosting #WebsiteAdministration #WebAdmin
Dear #WebAdmin and #SysAdmin out there, is there a service/platform similar to #Cloudflare but without the caching portion?
Mostly looking for the DNS, DDoS/WAF/security, and analytics features.
Since moving my CDN to its own domain I have a lot more freedom with my primary domains so looking for other options now.
(Free/cheap is preferable, not looking for enterprise solutions.)
@happykhan That said, one discovers quickly that a good .htaccess file is a must to prevent content scrapers from reusing your own hosted images for their click farm websites.
#webadmin
