GoatCounter is an open source web analytics platform available as a free donation-supported hosted service or self-hosted app. It aims to offer easy to use and meaningful privacy-friendly web analytics as an alternative to Google Analytics or Matomo (in official guide).

Getting started

Sign up & Get your access code

Create new account in here

You will access your blog statistics at https://[my-code].goatcounter.com.

Add your code to _config.yml

goatcounter_code: [my-code]

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Allow visitor counter

Sign in Goat counter from your browser, and enter the Settings tab.

Make sure Allow adding visitor counts on your website is checked: