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I reflected on this before I did it.
I do have some stats from server activity... how many people log in during a day, how many people post, etc.
Then there are rules of thumb that have held true since the forum started... for every 1 post 10 people login, for every 10 people that login 100 read without signing in.
So the traffic numbers are all accurate enough to be deduced from forum activity. And although there is a margin of error in there, there was always a margin of error with Google Analytics (you users of noscript and more aggressive privacy blockers).
What I will lose visibility of is percentage of which browser in use, how many people access from a mobile. Things that are only known on the client.
But I'm OK with not knowing that for a while, and when I do need such thing I could always build a very simple tool to measure just that for a short window of time and then turn it off once done.
So... no other package in place beyond some SQL queries on the database.
If I ever feel the need for stats (which I will), I will apply a combination of http://piwik.org/ (self-hosted, open source, Google Analytics replacement) and running my own stats engine.