I'm currently searching for a self-hostable solution for Web Analysis of my own web page. It should be lightweight and obviously open-source.
I already looked at Piwik and OpenWebAnalystics, however those seem to be quite heavy. I honestly don't want to creep on my visitors (like Google and partially the aforementioned tools do).
The main feature I'm looking for is page views.
Any recommendations? (also: What were your experiences with Piwik/OWA like?)
Really kind of you. But that is not the solution I'm looking for.
As you probably know, storing high-traffic data (and even writing to it) on memory is a bad idea. Also this does not hold any information about unique users. The solution you proposed could actually be implemented better by reading directly from /var/log/nginx/access.log.