Roll Your Own Analytics

#1

Post by pcmaffey » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:13 PM UTC

Roll Your Own Analytics
pcmaffey.com

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

#2

Post by xgess » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 12:44 PM UTC

nice. heads up though; your link to netlify goes to neltify which doesnt exist.

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by pcmaffey » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 1:10 PM UTC

xgess wrote: post #2

nice. heads up though; your link to netlify goes to neltify which doesnt exist.

Cool, thanks

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by ngvrnd » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:15 PM UTC

When I read this title I imagined a person getting out a chest of D&D dice. Change my mind.

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

#5

Post by pcmaffey » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:18 PM UTC

Hi HN, if anyone's wondering how this is performing with the 1st page crush... tldr; trial by fire, but it works :)

Since I posted it 2 hrs ago:

* logged 1200 sessions (this doesn't include folks who bounce before the page loads.)

* 8 "lock acquisition" errors from Google App script, which basically means it timed out trying to get a slot from too many concurrents

* 10 minutes of lambda runtime (Netlify gives 100hrs / month free)

* 590 ms average network latency

I'll update the post with full details on performance once the dust settles.

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by Eek » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:22 PM UTC

Nice! Good job! A bit too long to read everything, but liked the intro.

One issue though. I've reached the end and had no idea what to do from there (aka you don't have a scrollbar OMG). First time I've used Page Up to go back up on a site :)))

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by nickjj » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:23 PM UTC

Your site has no visible scroll bar. What was your design reason for hiding it? It's probably one of the most useful controls to use on a site. You should track its usage with your own analytics.

Or for now, track how many people moved their mouse to where they expected to see and use a scroll bar, noticed there was none and then closed the page.

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by dirktheman » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

Awesome work! I had the same issues with GA, but decided to go with Matomo (Piwik). It's an Open Source, self-hosted alternative to Analytics. So far I couldn't be more impressed!

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by twalling » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

pcmaffey wrote: post #5

Hi HN, if anyone's wondering how this is performing with the 1st page crush... tldr; trial by fire, but it works :) Since I posted it 2 hrs ago: * logged 1200 sessions (this doesn't include folks who bounce before the page loads.) * 8 "lock acquisition" errors from Google App script, which basically means it timed out trying to get a slot from too many concurrents * 10 minutes of lambda runtime (Netlify gives 100hrs…

I think you're more likely to hit Netlify's limit of 125k requests per month vs the 100hr limit.

Re: Roll Your Own Analytics

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Post by albertgoeswoof » Thu, Mar 14, 2019, 2:24 PM UTC

I really like the in line links on this page. Not having to open a new tab for a one line explanation is great. I wonder if this should be a browser level implementation one day.