PHP analytics without cookies or database — and without violating GDPR

I wanted to know which pages of my portfolio are visited, where the traffic comes from, and whether anyone actually reads the blog — without plugging in Google Analytics, without setting up a database, without displaying a cookie banner. The constraint: Apache + pure PHP hosting, nothing else. Why not Google Analytics GA4 would have taken 5 minutes. But two concrete problems: GDPR : the moment you use GA, personal data (IP, behavior) goes to Google. Legal obligation to display a consent banner,