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> Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy It's not your data, this data about me. > Your customers will love you because their valuable personal data is protected. I guarantee you your customers will not love you for tracking them.
Google Analytics is FREE and won't cost most us a dime. If you want to charge me a dime, you need to make your product worth that extra dime to ME. Note that even healthcare companies use Google Analytics here in the US.
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The terms on-premises and on-premise and on-prem are synonymous within enterprise lingo.
The one that grinds my gears is "bottoms up" instead of "bottom up."
Why does that "grind your gears?"
The term "bottoms up" is (unless I'm missing something important -- am I?) just the plural of "bottom up."
And given that the phrase is an admonition to drink what's in your container (hence seeing the bottom of the glass pointing up), it's usually (although I suppose it could be more prevalent when drinking alone, but I guess we'll never know) offered among a group (two or more) of folks, making "bottoms up" appropriate as it refers to more than one "bottom."
Again, I could be missing something important here. If so, please enlighten me.
Edit: Fixed typo.
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…
Matomo and GA's trackers both allow sending the query to a URL of your choice. Treat the analytics system as an index over the logs, rather than treating the logs as an auxiliary artefact of the analytics system
A while back I built out a quick guide comparing all of these alternatives, because the core value prop was pretty similar and it was annoying to compare between pricing plans. (My personal vote goes to Fathom.) https://buttondown.email/comparison-guides/google-analytics-...
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Last I checked, Fathom’s open source product hadn’t been updated for a couple of years. So, I switched to Plausible which is more reasonably updated.
How does Plausible compare to Google's Universal Analytics? And are there any SEO effects? GA4 migration seems not aimed at general users, so I'm looking at alternatives. Ideally could import my data.
Plausible is much simpler than UA, all the reporting is on one page and it has much more limited config options. It also can import your UA data. If you're looking for a simplified GA alternative it's a very good choice. (Full disclosure, I recently published an article on their blog about UA vs GA4: https://plausible.io/blog/ua-vs-ga4)
More alternatives: https://european-alternatives.eu/alternative-to/google-analy...
This website is off to a bad start when the first item says > Because it does not use cookies there is no need to show cookie banner for this service. which is a blatant lie/misinformation. The ‘cookie law’ has nothing to do with the actual use of cookies.
So if you are not using anything but essential cookies on your site, you don't need a banner.
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> 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…
The performance issues aren't with the measurement requests but with reporting. 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…
MySQL was too slow for running analytics on a single website? How much data are we talking about?
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The performance issues aren't with the measurement requests but with reporting. 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…
> with MySQL it's always going to be tough for larger queries MySQL was too slow for running analytics on a single website? How much data are we talking about?