If you use GA, you can try this minimal tracking code snippet to help bring the extra page weight from 75kb down to just 1.5kb.
I’ve been using (the self-installed) ‘On-Premise’ Matomo for a while. (I like the pain of doing something new live and always looking to reduce my dependence on Google.) Matamo is a good replacement for Google Analytics if you’re after simple site analytics. It even works on shared hosting, but it can be quite slow.