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Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

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Post by davidw » Tue, May 10, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

soared wrote: post #62

davidw wrote: post #24

One potential problem: if you, say, test out self-hosted alongside GA, and get different numbers, people are going to question the value of the self-hosted thing.

They should question both, but maybe GA more. GA is an approximation and absolutely not completely correct.

Try selling that to a business guy or client or someone. Possible, but not easy, especially if there's ever a large discrepancy.

Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

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Post by corobo » Wed, May 11, 2016, 11:14 AM UTC

FiloSottile wrote: post #50

Ileca wrote: post #45

"Self-hosting analytics for better privacy and accuracy." Then why using google fonts which is listed by Disconnect.me (used by Firefox) as a tracking domain? Isn't that paradoxical?

Oh, hey, good point. Let me fix that. EDIT: Done. Not exactly straightforward to download Google Fonts but there are great helpers around. Got rid of CDNjs as well, since CloudFlare has HTTP/2 now. No 3rd parties left except GA, which will go in a day or two.

It's pretty easy to download them. They're on Github

https://github.com/google/fonts

Re: Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy

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Post by soared » Thu, May 12, 2016, 6:56 PM UTC

davidw wrote: post #91

soared wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They should question both, but maybe GA more. GA is an approximation and absolutely not completely correct.

Try selling that to a business guy or client or someone. Possible, but not easy, especially if there's ever a large discrepancy.

Haha oh I know. Tell a client, "Yeah this is the data, it says this, BUT this is also how its wrong" and they always ignore the last part. Its data, that stuff can't be wrong!