The Google Analytics Setup I Use on Every Site I Build
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Keen IO is a great alternative. Full disclosure, I'm a product manager at Keen. That said, we do help some of our customers move off of GA to gain more control and flexibility in their analytics
I last tried keen a few years ago, and really liked it. The one thing I didn't like, and stopped using it was the pricing , which looks like has now been updated to be more realistic. Definitely checking it out again now.
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Can you elaborate on this? I recently had my marketing team ask me to replace GA with Google Tag Manager, and I'm not all that familiar with either, as running the web site is just a minor thing I do on the side of my product work... but this sounds like something I should know more about.
In the simplest terms, Google Tag Manager (GTM) is a script you load on your site that then loads additional (arbitrary) code based on conditions (which are executed client side). In the case of something like GA, let's say you want to track a new website activity or maybe want to pass data to a new custom dimension. Without GTM, you would update your GA javascript file. With GTM, you would make the update within the…
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#95Please don't contribute to Google's tracking dominance over the web. How insane is it that one company runs their javascript on 90% of the web?
What are the best alternatives?
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#96It's pretty annoying that I have to create spam filters for Google Analytics to be useful. Every site I've installed GA on has required me to filter out spam. I don't understand why something isn't done about it at an engineering level. If site owners can set up filters against spammers, is it really that hard for Google to do it? Especially since they can see it across their accounts. Seems like it's the same type o…
Can you elaborate as to what sort of spam you are referring to? Do you mean bots viewing your pages? Or is it something else?
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#97Echoing what others are saying, I much prefer Google Tag Manager. Many clients use a CMS which make injecting dynamic variables into a page a bit of a pain if it's not done via rules at runtime. The Next Web has open-sourced its Google Tag Manager setup ( https://github.com/thenextweb/gtm ), which has things like Scroll Tracking, Engagement Tracking (riveted.js), Outbound Link Tracking and lots of other things that a…
Scroll Tracking, Engagement Tracking (riveted.js), Outbound Link Tracking and lots of other things that are not in the default GA setup. I understand why a site owner would want those things, but as a user it is terrifying! This is why I run an ad blocker.
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#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
What are the best alternatives?
piwik or just grep your nginx logs.
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Scroll Tracking, Engagement Tracking (riveted.js), Outbound Link Tracking and lots of other things that are not in the default GA setup. I understand why a site owner would want those things, but as a user it is terrifying! This is why I run an ad blocker.
Tracking & analytics are great, but respect for user privacy should be greater. The current state of analytics is too intrusive to user privacy. Hence we decided to get rid of all analytics from our website ( https://ipapi.co ).
So if we talk about html, everyone should do a "shameless plug" because they also use html?!
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This is correct. The vast vast majority of people are not using adblock.
Sometime ago I read an interesting interview[1] with the Economist deputy editor, Tom Standange, saying things like: > The other thing about ads is that 41 percent of millennials are using ad block. My daughter has ad block and she goes around infecting every machine she gets to. She puts it on everything. > But the other thing is that she lives in incognito mode. She’s a total nightmare for advertisers, because she’…
Poor things, back to not knowing which 50% of the budget they're wasting, like it's the XX century.
The horror.