An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

Post by aiiane » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:14 PM UTC

hedora wrote: post #143

nsgi wrote: post #122

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No idea if that's true or not regarding Google Analytics, but you can opt out of all data sharing and I imagine Google would be in a lot of trouble if they didn't honour that.

There is no comprehensive opt out to Google tracking. If you disagree, show me the button that opts out of doubleclick (and all Google subsidiaries and data sharing partners) targeting ads at my home IP address, cell phone, car, etc.

Post by UncleMeat » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

megous wrote: post #135

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With any website it's important to know how many visitors it is receiving. In the context of a blog knowing you're getting a lot of traffic can motivate you to publish more content and knowing more about your visitors can also feed into what sort of content you publish. You could look at your server logs, of course, but analytics is easier to set up and gives you higher quality data than something like AWStats. Since…

Or you can have comments or some social platform for interacting with users, which is more rewarding, direct, and useful for future direction or content suggestions.

Post by juriansluiman » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:15 PM UTC

mulmen wrote: post #139

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I've done something similar to this that has worked for me without a lot of effort besides the first time setup. I use Fathom which is open-source and available to use on any hosting service. I use it with DigitalOcean so it's $5/mo and I get to run it on as many websites I have. Might not be very helpful in your case but I'd recommend thinking about using a simpler setup than SQS Queue + Lambda, if that works for yo…

I had to scroll a bit more than this thread would prefer to find the pricing. It says "get started for free" but the lowest pricing tier is $14.00/mo. Looks like "free" is only the 7 day trial.

Post by shortstuffsushi » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:18 PM UTC

munk-a wrote: post #101

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Thanks. I didn't check the homepage and looked for pricing info in the navigation links, felt it was needlessly difficult. Pricing should be easy to locate from every page for a product like this.

Discovering that users are having difficulty finding pricing information... might be one useful piece of data you could garner with a good analytics tool. Also I just checked out the pricing's placement and that is utterly terrible UI - the site uses light greyshade striping in the background for difference sections and then has the pricing block proceeded by a very dark background block with no information immediate…

Post by Ayesh » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 5:19 PM UTC

nsgi wrote: post #81

tachion wrote: post #18

It sounds like a nice product, but sadly it's not exactly why GA is so popular (being a 'nice' product, that is). It is popular, because it's free, relatively easy to implement on any website, requires no self-hosting and powerful, once running. I've checked your website for pricing, but not only there's no word about free tiers, but there isn't even anything on the pricing at all. So, when it comes to majority of GA…

Also, unlike many smaller analytics providers, Google Analytics doesn't have glaring CSRF vulnerabilities and doesn't have creepy features that let you spy on individual users (no idea if this applies to Plausible or not).