MZORK LAB // OPEN SOURCE
Web analytics from your server logs
Pageviews, visitors, top pages, referrers and daily trends for every site you run — counted from the access logs your server already keeps. No tracking script, no cookie banner, no third party watching your visitors.
Three steps, once an hour, entirely on your server.
Every page request already lands in your web server’s access log. Metrona reads that log once an hour — no tag to paste, nothing for an ad blocker to block.
Crawlers, uptime checks, scripts, images and stylesheets, errors and single-page-app background requests are dropped. What is left is people reading pages.
Visitors become a salted one-way hash: countable, never identifiable. Totals, top pages, referrers and day-by-day trends go into plain files and a small dashboard.
$git clone https://github.com/teamzork/metrona.git
$cd metrona && npm install
$node examples/try-dashboard.js # sample data → localhost:3003
A minute on your laptop with sample data. For a real server — config, two systemd services, the dashboard behind HTTPS — follow the setup guide.
Where it already runs.
Metrona counts production sites behind Caddy, and dimka.com behind nginx and Cloudflare, where it feeds a traffic tab in our own ops console. It started as an experiment in getting honest numbers without putting anything on the page — and stayed.