We ditched Google Analytics
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We ditched Google Analytics
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Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#2An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me.
Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#3> Like lots of other companies with high traffic websites, we are a technology company; one with a deep team of software developer expertise. It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package.
I'm a little curious why they decided to go this route instead of using one of the open-source solutions. Aren't there good solutions to this problem already?
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#4An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me. Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?
Have a look at piwik: http://piwik.org/
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#5An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me. Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?
Yes, there is: www.piwik.org
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#6Why not move to push GA data server-side?
Trivial to set-up, immune to adblockers affecting the completeness of data, prevents the write of tracking cookies, leaves data and utility of the GA dashboard mostly complete (loss of user client capabilities and some session-based metrics).
This is the route I'm preferring to take (being applied this Christmas via https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyga ).
One may argue that Google will still be aware of page views, but the argument presented in the article is constructed around the use of the tracking cookie and that would no longer apply.
I'm shifting to server-push to restore completeness, I'm presently estimating that client-side GA represents barely 25% of my page views (according to a quick analysis of server logs for a 24hr period). I'm looking to get the insight of how my site is used rather than capabilities of the client, so this works for what I want.
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#7Yet they are still listed on Google search [http://bit.ly/1ICwud0]. I guess it's easy to have principles when it doesn't cost you money.
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#8Yet they are still listed on Google search [ http://bit.ly/1ICwud0 ]. I guess it's easy to have principles when it doesn't cost you money.
How exactly would they stop themselves from being listed on Google? A right to be forgotten request? Their decision was to ditch Google Analytics, not to disappear from the web.
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#9Why not move to push GA data server-side? Trivial to set-up, immune to adblockers affecting the completeness of data, prevents the write of tracking cookies, leaves data and utility of the GA dashboard mostly complete (loss of user client capabilities and some session-based metrics). This is the route I'm preferring to take (being applied this Christmas via https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyga ). One may argue that Goog…
People don't care about the cookie or any of the details of the implementation. They care about being tracked across the whole internet. If you are still contributing to that then you are disrespecting your customers. I hope that I am not one of them.
Re: We ditched Google Analytics
#10Yet they are still listed on Google search [ http://bit.ly/1ICwud0 ]. I guess it's easy to have principles when it doesn't cost you money.
How does being listed on a search engine affect their users’ privacy? The users chose to use Google themselves, they could well use something like DuckDuckGo if they wanted to. They’re avoiding 3rd party tracking on their users, not boycotting Google.