Can you enhance the “plain pageview counter on the server-side” to exclude the logged-in admin, and perhaps the search engine crawlers? It seems logical to me that it would do that. The logged in admin I think should be easy to track, he’s logged in. And I should think search engine crawlers such as google, bing, webarchive, … are known too?
Anyone uses so called privacy respecting services who have a free tier and could help me how to include it in my w.a, like: