Is Google Analytics the best way to get forum statistics?

[BBQ Love]

Is Google Analytics the best way to get a day by day, month by month etc. Overview on page loads, thread loads over periods of time?

Basically looking for same info that WordPress statistics give. Good to know how busy the traffic is, when it is busy. Info that advertisers would like to see.

 

[Walter]

I prefer Piwik/Matomo over Google Analytics. More privacy, enough features.

 

[BassMan]

I vote for Matomo too. Self-hosted.

 

[Tealk]

I also use Matomo for all my pages, it runs very stable and you can adjust a lot yourself.
And as @Walter already said you can protect the privacy of your users very well.
And with this you can easily integrate it into Xenforo.