by rraval on 5/16/21, 5:30 PM with 2 comments
by rraval on 5/16/21, 5:48 PM
> I thought that surely in 2021, somebody would have built a simple page view counter that I could just plug into my dinky blog for minimal cost. I ended up evaluating all the popular alternatives: Matamo, Plausible, and Cloudflare analytics.
> As it turns out, all of these are rather expensive. What should have been simple became bespoke and Toph was born. It’s a Cloudflare workers service that sits in between the visitors browser and Google Analytics.
I figured linking to the source code and README was more appropriate for Show HN.
by bryanrasmussen on 5/16/21, 5:55 PM
Toph knows everything about everyone in her general vicinity! You can't even lie to her! (unless, perhaps, you are the psychopathic daughter of the Firelord)