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Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#51

The script from Counter is pretty special compare to others. It's a single fetch() call. And for some reasons, I can't see the request being logged to the Network tab in Chrome. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? My site: https://devutils.app/

Hmm it worked for me on my Chrome. It might be a plugin you have? Not sure.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#52
post #51

The script from Counter is pretty special compare to others. It's a single fetch() call. And for some reasons, I can't see the request being logged to the Network tab in Chrome. Maybe I'm doing something wrong? My site: https://devutils.app/

Hmm it worked for me on my Chrome. It might be a plugin you have? Not sure.

Ahh the request is only done for unique users - so if you already was there once he won't send another request again until you clear your browsing data (or just the sessionStorage)

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#53
post #43

I moved from GA to Plausible a while back. Very nice product and easy to set up. Its a paid product but I would rather keep my user's data private. This product seems interesting but its free so I fail to see how you will keep maintaining it in the future if you don't get paid. I understand that running it will cost you a few dollars a month if that at the beginning but eventually, between the time spent on maintenan…

I am doing this together with my regular job. At the very moment it does cost me about the same as the Netflix account I am paying for my parents. The plan to be profitable is by mass. There was a lot of time and thought spend on making this service really really cheap to serve. Even now with this HN my redis database is two megabytes in size and before this HN post with happy and active users the CPU did not went ov…

Also see here: https://github.com/ihucos/counter.dev#how-can-it-be-free

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#54

I find it funny how the stats get skewed by developers or people coming from HN (83% from HN at the time of viewing). Windows, the most used OS in the world is listed under "Other" when looking at the Platforms pie chart. Pretty funny that in the HN community Linux is more commonly used than Windows, at least from the people that clicked on the link.

Given Android is not listed, I suspect the Linux cohort may just be mostly mobile.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#55

A question for this thread... Does not having Google Analytics on your site affect your google search site ranking in any way? I have Google Analytics on my sites and I'm concerned about losing vistors if I swap to some other trackers.

There's no real way to know for sure (unless you work for Google), but if it did affect your ranking Google would be breaking antitrust law. They've gotten in trouble in courts for doing that with other products though so it's still potentially the case, legality aside.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#56
post #43

I moved from GA to Plausible a while back. Very nice product and easy to set up. Its a paid product but I would rather keep my user's data private. This product seems interesting but its free so I fail to see how you will keep maintaining it in the future if you don't get paid. I understand that running it will cost you a few dollars a month if that at the beginning but eventually, between the time spent on maintenan…

I am doing this together with my regular job. At the very moment it does cost me about the same as the Netflix account I am paying for my parents. The plan to be profitable is by mass. There was a lot of time and thought spend on making this service really really cheap to serve. Even now with this HN my redis database is two megabytes in size and before this HN post with happy and active users the CPU did not went ov…

Worth mentioning that the "pay what you want" business model can be a lot more profitable than people give it credit for.

My hobby photography business, which my wife and I run on a "pay what you want" model, brings more than enough to pay our monthly bills and have some leftovers for savings. While the last time I checked about 97% of photo shoots paid below average, the 3% that paid above average more than made up for it.

We also donate part of the profit of every photo shoot to a non-profit that helps women fight breast cancer, which aside from the good feeling that it give us, also helps with marketing on its own.

It is an interesting business model which not many people take advantage of, and may be perfect for Counter.dev for sure.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#57
post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am doing this together with my regular job. At the very moment it does cost me about the same as the Netflix account I am paying for my parents. The plan to be profitable is by mass. There was a lot of time and thought spend on making this service really really cheap to serve. Even now with this HN my redis database is two megabytes in size and before this HN post with happy and active users the CPU did not went ov…

Worth mentioning that the "pay what you want" business model can be a lot more profitable than people give it credit for. My hobby photography business, which my wife and I run on a "pay what you want" model, brings more than enough to pay our monthly bills and have some leftovers for savings. While the last time I checked about 97% of photo shoots paid below average, the 3% that paid above average more than made up…

That's interesting. Here in Berlin there is/was also a restaurant where you could pay what you want when you leave and it seemed to also work there. I can imagine important is to explicitly state that you do have costs and are expecting payment - it's just not such a strict thing and if you are a student of course you pay less. Let's see how it goes.

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#58

I find it funny how the stats get skewed by developers or people coming from HN (83% from HN at the time of viewing). Windows, the most used OS in the world is listed under "Other" when looking at the Platforms pie chart. Pretty funny that in the HN community Linux is more commonly used than Windows, at least from the people that clicked on the link.

Given Android is not listed, I suspect the Linux cohort may just be mostly mobile.

Does this count people with uBlock origin? I'm just one data point but here is my user agent:

What is my user agent? Your User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:88.0) Gecko/88.0 Firefox/88.0

According to useragent v2.2.1: ua

    rawUa: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:88.0) Gecko/88.0 Firefox/88.0
    string:
    family: Firefox Mobile
    major: 88
    minor: 0
    patch: 0
    device: Generic Smartphone 0.0.0
os

    string: Android 0.0.0
    family: Android
    major: 0
    minor: 0
    patch: 0
According to ua-parser-js v0.7.20: ua

    ua: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 10; Mobile; rv:88.0) Gecko/88.0 Firefox/88.0
browser

    name: Firefox
    version: 88.0
    major: 88
engine

    name: Gecko
    version: 88.0
os

    name: Android
    version: 10
device

    vendor: undefined
    model: undefined
    type: mobile
cpu

    architecture: undefined
According to platform.js v1.3.5: ua

    name: Firefox Mobile
    version: 88.0
    layout: Gecko
os

    os: Android 10
device

    product: Mobile
    manufacturer:
    description: Firefox Mobile 88.0 on Mobile (Android 10)

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#59
Was looking for something like this the other day. Looks perfect! trying it out right now.

Little confused how it works out the page though. Looking at the given snippet it doesn't seem to include anything and the pathname I am hitting is showing up on the dashboard as "/". Maybe missing sending "window.location.pathname"? And a super tiny thing but "navigator.sendBeacon" maybe better over "fetch". Other that super work!

Re: Show HN: Counter – Simple and Free Web Analytics

#60

I find it funny how the stats get skewed by developers or people coming from HN (83% from HN at the time of viewing). Windows, the most used OS in the world is listed under "Other" when looking at the Platforms pie chart. Pretty funny that in the HN community Linux is more commonly used than Windows, at least from the people that clicked on the link.

Yes, also before the HN peak it seemed that windows was not so common actually. Which kind of makes sense given the product.
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