Matomo

Matomo is the best alternative to Google analytics and other web traffic monitoring system. Matomo is the best choice if you choose to own your website visitors analytical data, Other proprietary services like Google analytics own your data you never know what they may do with that data or what they may use it for. that's why i always recommend Matomo over any other analytics system.

I don't think there is any significant cons that Matomo has.

Easy to use and easy to learn. Its got everything you need out of the box.

Google won't release their serch data to Matomo.

If you host the software it's not only free but all the data is on your server, and you don't need to worry what Company X is doing with it. Even as a hosted solution, it's a German company and the servers are in Germany, so that's good news for GDPR compliance. Offers all you need for web analytics and respects users' data protection rights.

It's not quite as smooth to set up as Google Analytics. Google does it all for you - but at a price, and that is the privacy of your website users. (My personal opinion.) The price you pay with Matomo is that you have to do the setup, and there can be a learning curve. I see that as a service I do for our customers.

We've been using it since 2019 and it's a replacement for our Google Search Appliance (GSA).
Matomo behaved as a quality alternative for content search on our intranet and has met our expectations with an excellent cost-benefit ratio and ease of use.
We have no hesitation in recommending it to other users.

If a page had very little access, it is difficult to find its data in the reports, as it only displays the most accessed.