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A Clojure developer built a lightweight, self-hosted web analytics library called clj-simple-stats as an alternative to bloated solutions like Google Analytics. The library integrates as Ring middleware with zero configuration, distinguishes between request types (live users, RSS feeds, bots), properly counts RSS reader subscribers from User-Agent headers, and provides semantically correct visualizations using bar charts instead of misleading line graphs. It uses DuckDB for storage and offers basic filtering by page, referrer, and date. Future improvements include spike analysis, GeoIP data, referrer signal extraction, and performance optimization through pre-calculated aggregates.

Statistics made simple