Preserving Netlify Analytics Data Beyond 30 Days

I’ve got Netlify Analytics turned on for a few of my websites. I use it send myself a little daily digest that alerts me when folks link to my writing, be it an individual sending me a few referrals, a newsletter sending me a few hundred, or Hacker News sending me thousands. But sometimes I want to know more than, “What happened with traffic in the last 24 hours?” Sometimes I want to know, “What happened with traffic in the last month?” I can log in to Netlify to answer that question. Sometimes I want to know, “What happened with traffic in the last six months?” Netlify doesn’t have an answer for that because they only store the last thirty days of traffic data. I’ve known about this limitation for years and always thought, “I really should just start saving that data for myself.” But, you know, laziness. How bad do I really want it? The answer, it seems, was “I only want it if it’s _easy_”. Enter Val Town. Val Town makes this kind of task easy. Each “Val” is it’s own little bucket of…