Oh thank you thank you thank you! This disappeared when they introduced the new graphs, and I've been missing them ever since. This time we can even see uniques, which is awesome.
Bitdeli (https://bitdeli.com/) is another free service that provides analytics for Github pages. I have been using it but didn't like the association with AdRoll, a targeted advertising company.
While GitHub Traffic Analytics shows the repository author much more info, the Sourcegraph counter makes the visitor count visible to everybody. This helps users see how popular your project is.
Notably, Google Analytics and the ga-beacon can be blocked by disabling JavaScript or blocking the beacon's domain. How can privacy-conscious users avoid being tracked by this feature?
e: I've just looked at my own pages' analytics and was quite surprised to find data from before today. Is this to say that GitHub has been surrepticiously recording data about my project without any way to opt out?
From my understanding all Github features are deployed to staff only behind a feature flag. Naturally they had it partially in production before flipping the flag for everybody
That said, surely the notion of a website where you are hosting content tracking who is visiting individual pages is not outrageous.
c.f. your web host inspecting your access logs. My project is my own and your platform is yours. That said, my primary concern is that I as a user have no way to opt out.
