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Thoughts on Microsoft Clarity? https://clarity.microsoft.com
p.s., Under the covers Clarity runs on ClickHouse.
Thoughts on Microsoft Clarity? https://clarity.microsoft.com
So thanks but No thanks
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Haven't used it in six years but back in the days it was Piwik it was ideal: easy to set up locally, a good range of features and a friendly community (v. responsive to an upgrade issue we experienced but apart from that everything worked exactly as expected).
Back in my day it was awstats. Still works great. I have 18 years of data. https://www.awstats.org/
Let's all just stop tracking all together. We don't need tracking at all and bloating up and slowing down websites.
I wonder if someone's made an AdNauseam for tracking libraries yet. Going on the defensive clearly doesn't work, some more offensive action is required. Send a whole bunch of plausible events, pretending to click every link, changing your identifiers and stuff like resolution every time, make it impossible to determine what data is real and what isn't. Bonus points for leaving websites alone if they don't load tracki…
That said, I don't think this is an effective strategy at all. Safari has placed a big giant hole in tracking (like 20% of users) and lots of sites are still proceeding like nothing has changed. Google referrer spam was run at mega-scale dumping billions (at least) of spam hits into millions of profiles and didn't effect tracking efforts.
A plugin run by .0001% of users or whatever that adds in a bunch of slop to the numbers just makes more analysts pull out their hair rather than leading to change.
Matomo is decent, but my main issue with it is the performance when run at any sort of scale. It's PHP/MySQL, which is nice for ease of self-hosting, but it means a lot of things need to be pre-calculated. Most of the newer and more performant GA alternatives out there are using things like ClickHouse. ClickHouse: Piwik PRO, Plausible, PostHog, Yandex, Cloudflare Snowflake: Amplitude, Piano, Snowplow SingleStore: Fat…
I've never actually run into performance issues, neither when using it in production professionally, nor for my self-hosted sites (with Matomo always running on-prem). I'd say the performance of PHP and MySQL/MariaDB is most likely decent as long as you don't go too far into specialized workloads, for example log aggregation/tracing; though even some APM solutions like Apache Skywalking also support using traditional RDBMSes for this purpose as well: https://skywalking.apache.org/docs/main/v9.0.0/en/setup/back...
That said, I can't help but to wonder at what actual scale (number of logged events/second, given certain hardware) you'd run into issues. Luckily, because adding basic analytics is usually quite easy, testing this for your own workloads shouldn't be out of the question - then you can let the data speak for itself.
Matomo is decent, but my main issue with it is the performance when run at any sort of scale. It's PHP/MySQL, which is nice for ease of self-hosting, but it means a lot of things need to be pre-calculated. Most of the newer and more performant GA alternatives out there are using things like ClickHouse. ClickHouse: Piwik PRO, Plausible, PostHog, Yandex, Cloudflare Snowflake: Amplitude, Piano, Snowplow SingleStore: Fat…
> Matomo is decent, but my main issue with it is the performance when run at any sort of scale. It's PHP/MySQL, which is nice for ease of self-hosting, but it means a lot of things need to be pre-calculated. I've never actually run into performance issues, neither when using it in production professionally, nor for my self-hosted sites (with Matomo always running on-prem). I'd say the performance of PHP and MySQL/Mar…
When I eval'd it for my book last fall there were big delays in reporting waiting for segments and then also issues with custom reports. I think they have changed the default behavior to get around some of the former, but with MySQL it's always going to be tough for larger queries.
(if there's any performance issue on the measurement side it has more to do with the JavaScript payload because they include a lot in their standard JS bundle).
I tried Matomo. Self hosting is easy. That's a plus. I also like the interface. Took a while to get used to it but after that, I liked it even better than Google Analytics. But one problem that seems unsurmountable is that it tries to be clever. And while trying, it messes up your data. If you have pages with a parameter in the querystring that is called "q", Matomo does not count those as pageviews. It tries to be c…
I tried Matomo. Self hosting is easy. That's a plus. I also like the interface. Took a while to get used to it but after that, I liked it even better than Google Analytics. But one problem that seems unsurmountable is that it tries to be clever. And while trying, it messes up your data. If you have pages with a parameter in the querystring that is called "q", Matomo does not count those as pageviews. It tries to be c…
Just disable website search or change the search parameter inside website settings to stop Matomo from interpreting the 'q' parameter as search.