The live-demo button needs to be better visible.
You are so right, I added this because of feedback I got. I need to make this more prominent.
Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
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Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't seem like a very useful measure of uniqueness. What if you had one-day retention of IP addresses for per-day unique views? Seems like too important of a metric to eliminate completely, and one-day retention seems like a decent trade-off at the expense of being able to do unique analysis over longer time periods.
Don’t retain the IP address, retain a hash of the IP address.
A plain hash doesn't make a difference.
One can use hashes with regularly changing salts that are destroyed after a while to make older hashes unusable though for some purposes.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#33I've moved away from using any kind of script embedded in my webpages for tracking and instead just use Goaccess ( https://goaccess.io/ ) to analyze my logs. Though there are obvious caveats with this, you need to install it, configure the server logging to match it and so on. But personally the benefits outweighs the cons, it all runs on the server, you are the sole owner off all the data and this tracking doesn't r…
Goaccess is amazing and, in a world where seemingly every technology touts itself as "lightweight" (whether they really are or not), truly is very light weight.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't seem like a very useful measure of uniqueness. What if you had one-day retention of IP addresses for per-day unique views? Seems like too important of a metric to eliminate completely, and one-day retention seems like a decent trade-off at the expense of being able to do unique analysis over longer time periods.
Don’t retain the IP address, retain a hash of the IP address.
When you can trivially crawl the input space like ipv4 addresses, you'd have to expire a fresh per-day salt as well.
But to my eyes, expiring salts isn't much different than deleting ip addresses after one day. Just more machinery. People have to trust that you're doing either, so why bother beyond being able to use the word "hashing" in marketing language?
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#35It doesn't even offer close to the features Google Analytics offers and costs $12/month. The same such a service as Netflix costs.
The idea is nice but looking at the actual product here: https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io
It disappoints in every way, you can't even check yesterdays stats.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
This look great—have bookmarked it for future projects. I would however a little more skeptical with tools claiming to be privacy-first than I would be with GA (who I presume are not privacy-first). On that note, some quick questions: - Any plans to open source? I've used Piwik/Matomo in the past, and while I'm not a massive fan of the code-quality of that project, it's at least auditable (and editable). - You say yo…
- No plans to go open source with the backend, but I do show the code that is run in the browser. The visualisation of the data is not super important I think. - I don't save IP's, not even in the logs. - I don't have unique pageviews at the moment. I will in the future. If the referrer is the same as the current page, I will measure that as a non-unique. What do you think?
> What do you think?
Apart from the unfortunate non-open-source answer, this sounds great!
I get others' concerns about wanting unique pageviews, but that metric is always a bit of a sketchy either-or for extremely privacy-conscious people. It's both an incredibly valuable metric, and also one that's difficult to square with complete privacy (basically it's always going to be pseudonymous at best).
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#37Few Questions: How likely is this to be blocked by uBlock Origin/Firefox private mode (easy-list etc). Do they have any rules what they consider to be 'ethical analytics'? How much overhead does this analytics package have on page load. Have you considered a free tier for up to 1k page views a month for example? How can this track conversions for A/B testing? This is one of the most common usages of analytics in my e…
If people want to block you, they should. I also respect the Do Not Track setting. If it is on, I just don't register the visit. I have considered the free version, but I only want to do this when I have enough customers. A/B testing is not simple anymore, so probably not doing that.
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#38The idea is great, but price is way too high for a simple site. Many people are interested in anonymised data like pageviews and geographical distribution, for example, but these people pay 10€/year for domain and often 0 for hosting for static site generators. 12€/month is just really expensive at this level, but good luck and I’m sure for many people it’s totally fine price.
I disagree. If he’s a solo developer he doesn’t need to worry about free or cheap people. He needs to find people who value what he has built at a higher level and tailor it to them. The pricing looks great to me.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#39It doesn't even offer close to the features Google Analytics offers and costs $12/month. The same such a service as Netflix costs. The idea is nice but looking at the actual product here: https://simpleanalytics.io/simpleanalytics.io It disappoints in every way, you can't even check yesterdays stats.
Please remember this is a Show HN, very early stage.
Re: Show HN: I made a privacy-first minimalist Google Analytics
#40For a project of mine I created an 'actions' table in my database. For every visit (only server-side data) I make an entry into that table. That way I keep track of key metrics that I am interested in (basically which page is loaded and where did the visit come from?). I also store the request id so that I can differentiate between different visits. Entries into this table are made in an new thread in order to prevent any issues or slow-downs on that end to influence load-times, etc too much. Works very well.