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The thread is called ”website stats” though.
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GA/Piwik and server log analyzers are both methods of compiling "website stats".
cat /var/log/nginx/hostname-access.log
in wordpress installations, Jetpack, in other sites google analytics, and UptimeRobot for down alerts.
Both Piwik and Google analytics. For server logs, the 'visitors' package. Examples for https://raymii.org: http://vps6.sparklingclouds.nl/report-lastlog.html or an older version: http://s1.spnw.nl/report-lastlog.html
Last time I tried (which was years ago, so may have changed by now), it was pretty rubbish. The importer works by making an API request for each log entry. Unsurprisingly, it's ridiculously slow. Like, it would take hours to import one day's worth of visits, whilst GoAccess could scan the entire file in a few seconds.
Piwik really isn't designed to be used as a log analyser. Ignoring speed, you're essentially copying all the data into a database; having a second copy of the data seems kinda pointless when all the data is already in a compact log file. Also many of Piwik's collection capabilities won't work when scanning log files.
AWStats isn't as fast as GoAccess, but it is actually designed to be a log analyser, unlike Piwik. My biggest beef with AWStats is that it isn't set up, by default, to analyse data on a day-by-day basis, and configuring it to do so does require editing some scripts.
vnstat
Webalizer and AWStats, Both are great.
AWStats give detailed stats. Google Analytics is also useful.