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Interesting to see the high numbers for GA. A bit of ‘do as I say, not as I do’ going on?
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“generator” meta tag? https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/semantics.html#meta-g...
Jekyll only adds that if you use their “SEO” plugin: https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-seo-tag/blob/0943563d0aac60... . (I don’t use that plugin, so I add it manually to mine.)
Of those who responded to the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' thread. HN is large. Likely larger than many of its visitors realize because the participants are a relatively small fraction of the readership. So HN readers are not necessarily contributors. And not all contributors would plug their blogs in a thread asking them to do so. If you want to get an idea of the HN readership rather than of the HN…
Exactly. On a pseudanonymous forum that’s as good as asking people to doxx themselves!
I‘m surprised and a bit disappointed that only 4 of them use Matomo. I assumed this to be the quasi standard alternative to Google...
I like the analysis. However, I am curious why entries are not sorted by counts. As a rule of thumb, sorting alphabetically makes no sense! Also, 382 sounds like a very small number, given the size of HN. I did try to find many blogs I read, but couldn't find one. So, crucially - was it a random sample? Or sample from top-liked, or from a particular month? some findings (e.g. the prevalence of Wordpress) may depend o…
At the top he writes how he got the data, from the 'what is your blog and why should I read it' post.
I‘m surprised and a bit disappointed that only 4 of them use Matomo. I assumed this to be the quasi standard alternative to Google...
Personally I found Matomo rather hard to use, I tried it for a while but decided that writing my own was easier than figuring out to get Matomo to do what I want (also: cheaper and easier). I think it's a good alternative for some use cases, but far from all. Related comment I left on Lobsters a few days ago: https://lobste.rs/s/cdrrty/why_you_should_stop_using_google#...
> Static Site Generators how can that be detected ? I'm curious.
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But it's optional.