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Nice work! Off-topic but remember that you can get a surprising amount of analytics using just your web server logs and no JavaScript at all https://goaccess.io/
Can someone explain the attraction of embedded JS for analytics, what exactly does it buy you versus log parsing? Log parsing seems like the logical choice for the static site crowd but it seems like there's little interest there. I must be missing something.
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I wouldn't look at how GA implements things. But I'd look at what people are using GA to learn. The four scenarios I listed above are important to understand when running the marketing side of a B2B SaaS company. I don't care about the implementation details (other than they're straightforward). But I need to understand that info. And today there's no obvious choice other than GA. This surprises me.
Matomo is probably the only serious contender at the moment, as far as I know. I agree that info is important, I just meant that the UI might turn out quite different from GA.
GoatCounter seems really promising, I especially like the simple web interface, the selected programming language (Go) and that it should work with a simple SQLite database.
Keep up the great work!
If you need some ideas for features that are currently implemented into KISSS but not into GoatCounter (AFAIK):
- Request stats from multiple domains (e.g. see the number of page views for all domains combined)
- Request stats by different criteria (e.g. only show stats with referrer of Hacker News or Browser Firefox)
- Reports: Daily email or Telegram message with stats
- Telegram bot: Request stats via Telegram
There's definitely a need of privacy-respecting analytics services that don't collect personal data. I hope you can succeed with your project!
[1]: https://kis3.dev/
[2]: https://github.com/zgoat/goatcounter/blob/master/docs/ration...
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It was actually written as an alternative to Fathom! My original plan was to contribute to Fathom until it suited my needs, but the Open Source version of Fathom is on indefinite hiatus and the maintainers are working on a (closed) rewrite. I decided that starting from scratch would be better, as there were some things I would have preferred to do fundamentally different. What I really wanted was to add analytics to…
Oh no! What's the source on the indefinite hiatus? I use Fathom for all of my sites. Haven't heard about any of this. Can you point me to anything?
What is so special about this?
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No need for it to be free. I'd be willing to pay to not blow my brains out every time I have to touch GA.
I know you'd be willing to pay, so would I, but most would not, which is why Google Analytics is so ridiculously popular.
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I don't care that much about not tracking my users tbh. I'm only using it to optimize conversion on my site. I'm not selling it or doing anything untoward, and wouldn't ever.
You can't optimise conversion if you remove the ability to track users. If you see 8 hits on page A and 4 on page B, is it that 4 people left or that the first 4 people visited the page twice before they moved to page B? You can't tell without the unique cookie. That said, having a unique but anonymous cookie within a single site isn't the end of the world but Google only provide GA for free because it is useful for…