When we launched dacforge.com two days ago we shipped it with no analytics. No Google tag, no Plausible, no anything. The privacy posture on the home page said "we run our own infrastructure"; putting a third-party tracker on the site would have been a visible contradiction on line one. Two days in, that stance had already stopped being defensible. The site had traffic we could not explain, referrers we could not trace, and pages whose value we could not compare. "No analytics" is a purist line that works until you need to make a decision, and then you have nothing. The honest move was not to hold the line; it was to pick a tool that would let us keep most of the privacy posture intact and add just enough visibility to act on. Today we deployed Umami on the same Hetzner box that serves this site, behind https://analytics.dacforge.com , and flipped the tracker on in Base.astro . Here is what shipped, why Umami over the other four options we evaluated, and the short version of the legal posture on /privacy .…