13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by markosaric » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 8:29 AM UTC

13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics
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Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

#2

Post by freddyym » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:10 AM UTC

If only it was a higher percentage...

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by Simon_says » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:15 AM UTC

> How I implemented my study

> I installed Google Analytics alongside Plausible Analytics on three sites in June.

All he measured was people who load Plausible Analytics and not Google Analytics. Anybody running noscript (like me) wouldn't have shown up here at all.

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by onion2k » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:15 AM UTC

None of my website users need to block Google Analytics.

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by Pete-Codes » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:16 AM UTC

I've used Simple Analytics since day one of my site. Thoroughly recommended for privacy.

Fathom Analytics is another option.

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by tomcooks » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:17 AM UTC

freddyym wrote: post #2

If only it was a higher percentage...

Path of least resistance will unfortunately make it lower, once social networks, media groups and browser vendors play the usual dark UI patterns

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by karxxm » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:20 AM UTC

onion2k wrote: post #4

None of my website users need to block Google Analytics.

Mine either. They also don't have to worry about Facebook analyzing click behavior via the SDK.

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by cm2187 » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

I am not surprised by the low iOS numbers, adblockers are a pain to setup and I haven’t found one as good as ublock origin. Would anyone have recommendation for a good iOS adblocker?

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by iamacyborg » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

Simon_says wrote: post #3

> How I implemented my study > I installed Google Analytics alongside Plausible Analytics on three sites in June. All he measured was people who load Plausible Analytics and not Google Analytics. Anybody running noscript (like me) wouldn't have shown up here at all.

Yup, would have been interesting to compare both vs a log analytics tool like Matomo.

Re: 13% of my website visitors block Google Analytics

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Post by TomGullen » Mon, Jul 13, 2020, 9:21 AM UTC

Better way perhaps we do is compare Cloudflare visitors to GA visitors over same time frame. This method doesn’t measure people with JS disabled.

I think it’s important to remember also with large numbers a percent of users blocking GA is likely not a big deal - you just want something generally accurate. Switching analytics providers to get more data isn’t in itself a reason to switch.

If people care about payload size of tracking scripts on their site then I see a good opportunity here for CDNs to offer analytics.