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Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Post by mattab » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 10:09 PM UTC

username223 wrote: post #111

jdmichal wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Self-hosted means that it will be served from your own servers, and thereby your own domain. So unless your domain is on a block list, it will be loaded. EDIT: Sorry, I've been dealing with uBlock Matrix for too long, and forgot how advanced the other blockers pattern matching is. See the many responses to this for better information.

It will probably take awhile, but trackers will move to aggregating log files, and blockers will move to TOR. And the arms race continues...

Piwik for example already can import log files: http://piwik.org/log-analytics/ as an alternative to JavaScript tracking

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#272

Post by mattab » Wed, Dec 16, 2015, 10:09 PM UTC

X-Istence wrote: post #247

Something1234 wrote: post #240

What about awstats or goaccess? Both are great log analyzers, although I like goacess better. http://goaccess.io/ http://www.awstats.org/

The look and feel of awstats hasn't changed since I last used it back in 2004...

Piwik is the new AWStats, check out http://piwik.org/log-analytics/

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#273

Post by emilburzo » Mon, Dec 21, 2015, 12:43 PM UTC

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #250

I haven't checked my GA in months since it became clear that Google won't bother doing anything to fix the referer spam problem that makes the stats useless if you don't have a high-volume site. It's not like these abusers are hard to track down but I'll be damned if I'm going to manually add filters to get rid of them every time they come in from a new domain.

Admin -> select account -> select property -> View Settings (on the view you want) there's a checkbox:

Exclude all hits from known bots and spiders