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If not, then logs of webservers are the only 100% reliable place (if available of course), so old-style tools like awstats, Webalizer, etc [1] should have a rise in popularity again.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software
I'm honestly curious, are all the analytics tools, which rely on making third party queries, still efficient with extensive use of adblocking these days? If not, then logs of webservers are the only 100% reliable place (if available of course), so old-style tools like awstats, Webalizer, etc [1] should have a rise in popularity again. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_analytics_software
In this case, the source of truth is cloudflare's loadbalancer, but you have to pay them to get full analytics.
I’ve been pretty happy with Matomo (formerly Piwik), especially their non-cookie mode. But the interface is ugly, confusing, and makes finding information much more difficult than Google Analytics does. Edit: One major thing I am unhappy with in Matomo is event tracking. GA makes it much easier (in my experience) to track conversions and events, and presents the data in a better way.
I found the Matomo interface to be a breath of fresh air compared to Google Analytics! As a non-power user, GA was too heavy and enterprise-like. Matomo is much cleaner, simpler, and more efficient for me to work with.
[0]: https://funnybretzel.com/self-hosted-analytics-using-sqlite-...
Does anyone have experience with passive fingerprinting? I thought about implementing it into our Go backend as a middleware of some kind and track that way. I haven't found anything like it so far, but it would be ideal to track without cookies.
We are very firm on our values. We will never sell your data. We have many ways to get your raw data out of our system (API, download links, ...).
Our collection script [2] is open source and today we are also adding source maps to our public scripts. Open source does not guarantee that a business runs that same software as their cloud based option. We are looking into services that can validate what we collect on our servers. We never collect any IPs of personal data [3].
Great to see more products that care about privacy, I hope they will really care and commit to their values for a long time.
[1] https://simpleanalytics.com
If you decide to migrate off GA, there's very little reason to not use self-hosted analytics. The only case when you'd get better analytics from a _service_ is exactly a GA-like setup that can track people as they go from one website to another. That is, the real value of an analytics service is derived directly from its ability to invade people privacy, at scale. Granted, migrating to another service is usually simp…
I was once making a service that provided cross site widgets for companies to embed. Obviously it was beneficial to track people as they go from one website to another, but at that point it was beneficial to do it with our own service.
If you decide to migrate off GA, there's very little reason to not use self-hosted analytics. The only case when you'd get better analytics from a _service_ is exactly a GA-like setup that can track people as they go from one website to another. That is, the real value of an analytics service is derived directly from its ability to invade people privacy, at scale. Granted, migrating to another service is usually simp…
For example, if you validate forms with JS you might want to track form submissions and validation errors.