I recently migrated 3 micro-sites to Drupal 11. All included the google_analytics module, the "religion" of an era that has become an unconscious reflex. OK, I'll comply, I'm going to reinstall it. Oh! the module is gone, it's been replaced by google_tag. Fine, alright. Ah… I have to create a new account, GTA, changing times require it. Oh no… yuck! I feel like Grumpy Smurf. No no no…
But I'd still like to have some numbers… What are the open source alternatives? Matomo $29/month, Plausible $9/month. In both cases I have to create an account… yuck again! Maybe with a few SQL queries then…?
Ah! The 3 micros are in a cPanel. And what's in the toolbox of every cPanel ? AWstats! Not pretty and rather rudimentary but it'll do the job. Hmm… in the cPanel UI there are a lot of clicks that stand in the way of the passing desire to see these statistics and the display (sigh)…
I feel lazy. Is there something better? Yes! There's the Bawstats module (bit obsolete?) which once configured, displays the same reports directly in the Drupal admin UI. Yippee!