In this post, I’ll walk you through how I set up an analytics solution for my Hugo-based blog. I wanted to avoid using Google Analytics or other invasive services that collect excessive data, so I opted for a simple, self-hosted alternative.

On my blog, which uses Hugo as a static site generator, I wanted to offer a comment system. However, I didn’t want to use the paid Disqus service, so I looked for a simple, self-hosted solution.

The first solution I came across was CusDis. While it was relatively easy to integrate, the layout was not ideal. It looked outdated and didn’t scale properly to the current page width and height. This issue is documented, for example, in a GitHub issue.