An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website

Post by pgcj_poster » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 9:26 PM UTC

rchaud wrote: post #78

saagarjha wrote: post #33

If this is your personal website, one option to consider is dropping the analytics completely. Do you really need to know exactly (and it’s not even that exact, since people block or can’t load your analytics) how many people viewed your blog posts? Anecdotally, if you put your email at the bottom of the page you’ll get a pretty good idea just from the number of people who send you one.

> Anecdotally, if you put your email at the bottom of the page you’ll get a pretty good idea just from the number of people who send you one. You can't be serious. Who in this day and age reads an article and thinks "Hmm, that was useful, I'll send the author a note of thanks"? This might have been the case in 1995 when there were only a few websites around, and Internet use was considered leisure time and not part a…

Post by SkyMarshal » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 9:56 PM UTC

carlisle_ wrote: post #262

SkyMarshal wrote: post #220

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I didn't poke around. I knew by the time I finished reading the Table of Contents, before I even got to the content. Even if they had said in their very first sentence of the content "Disclaimer: We are a competitor to Google Analytics", I would have already known before that. It's blatantly obvious, they didn't need to spoon feed me. This isn't some submarine article. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html

Your comment reminds me of this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ >"I am THE ONE. You only need to know me. I am better than all of you."

Post by carlisle_ » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:05 PM UTC

SkyMarshal wrote: post #273

carlisle_ wrote: post #262

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Your comment reminds me of this: https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2018/04/28/meta/ >"I am THE ONE. You only need to know me. I am better than all of you."

All the examples given in that article are people belittling complex programming tasks. But this was just a simple a reading comprehension and logical deduction task, not even remotely in the same league. But maybe to you this was a similarly difficult task, so I apologize if I was being insulting by belittling it. Sorry!

Post by slenk » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:22 PM UTC

hidiegomariani wrote: post #239

slenk wrote: post #186

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I assume you mean you are running the whole site through the cloudflare proxy, not just DNS. You cannot get that advanced of DNS metrics by just using them for DNS.

I use cloudflare as nameserver that effectively takes over all DNS queries for my domain

Post by sampsonitify » Wed, Apr 08, 2020, 10:32 PM UTC

lucideer wrote: post #58

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…

> It is popular, because it's free, relatively easy to implement on any website, requires no self-hosting and powerful, once running Tbh, I disagree. While a lot of the above is true, it's largely popular because it's a recognisable brand, and because the majority of frontend devs are already familiar with it and haven't felt the need to explore an alternative (network effect). While an alternative does really need t…