DIY Page Analytics

This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. Because I’d like to have a rough idea of which of my posts are receiving the most engagement and which sites are driving the most traffic, and since GitHub Pages doesn’t provide me with this by default, I decided to add some page view analytics to my site. I’m not particularly keen on privacy-invasive services like Google Analytics, which collect far more information than I need and share it with 3rd-parties, so I decided to build my own minimalist service. Also, it just seemed like a fun yak-shaving exercise, and everything else on this page is hand-made.
In this post we’ll walk through how to build a very basic page analytics service using Azure Functions and Table Storage, which you can host yourself for a few cents per year—my last twelve invoices reached a grand total of 49 cents.
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