[tombrossman]

The HTML reports are my preferred way of looking at stats, but to make them more useful it's worth taking some additional steps to filter all the garbage traffic.

What works for me is:

- Use ipset to drop all traffic from certain countries (you pick which works best for you)

- Configure fail2ban to 'automagically' drop all IPs requesting .php and wp-admin URLs for a few days

- Integrate Piwik/Matomo's 'referrer spam' blocklist into your list of ignored referrers.

- Use per-site logging and only log .html hits with a static site to see page views.

This approach won't work for everyone and it takes extra sysadmin & Bash scripting skills to achieve, but it works really well with my Jekyll site.

I don't receive much traffic on my personal website but my stats page is public and updates hourly with a cronjob. https://www.tombrossman.com/stats/

[smnscu]

Nice photos, thank you for piquing my interest in Jersey https://www.tom.je/

Also, pretty good advice in this post, bookmarked it.