Website operators struggle to explore server traffic by URL and time
Web administrators want to understand visits to particular URLs over time, filter traffic by fields or patterns, and—in some cases—measure traffic without relying on external trackers. The evidence describes current log analyzers as lacking flexible web-based drill-down, with one user finding GoAccess’s command-line workflow inconvenient for that task. Operators who did not retain logs also cannot use a new tool to recover historical traffic.
For self-hosting website operators and web administrators. Mentioned from Feb 2018 to Apr 2026 on Bluesky, GitHub, Hacker News and Stack Exchange.
4 different people described this problem in 4 separate discussions.
- Indie fit
- 5.0/10
- Pain
- 4.5/10
- Frequency
- 5.8/10
- Willingness to pay
- 0.0/10
- Momentum
- 5.0/10
- Who pays
- Businesses
- Competition
- High
- Build difficulty
- Medium
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Is there anything that does that, preferably something that's FOSS? As far as I'm aware, the above-mentioned tools don't (and if GoAccess does, it requires somewhat annoying fiddling with the commandline rather than a web interface); they either display just the total number of accesses of a URL or all traffic over tim…
It’ll be great to have this! It would allow one to dig into a single day (to check how traffic varies during that day)
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