An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
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Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
#2> These two tracking scripts combined add 45.7 KB of page weight to each and every page load.
Which is only true is there is no caching and I highly doubt that these files are configured not to be cached after the first load
Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
#3It seems like plausible is a GA competitor (and I didn't see disclaimers, but could have missed them). It seems very clean and well thought though!
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#4I like that they gave some alternatives.
With the web there are a lot of crusade like topics that while technically correct the maelstrom of finger waving blog posts really don't seem to change much and few really offer workable solutions to accomplish the goals that doing the thing they don't want you to do accomplishes.
Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
#5The biggest drawback to not having Google Analytics on your website is if you choose to run Google Ads for your site and you have to retarget/remarket on Google properties. Without Google Analytics you are out of luck as you can enable remarketing only in Google Analytics (and you would need Analytics linked to Google Ads). If you have a personal website or a business that grows organically without needing to use Advertising then you can go ahead with any analytics provider of your choice. But the value add provided by using Google Analytics far outweighs other negatives from a business point of view.
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#6Is this an ad?
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#7I like that they gave some alternatives. With the web there are a lot of crusade like topics that while technically correct the maelstrom of finger waving blog posts really don't seem to change much and few really offer workable solutions to accomplish the goals that doing the thing they don't want you to do accomplishes.
One alternative that should be seriously considered is not having analytics at all. I don't doubt that they're useful for many people in many situations, but consider whether they're useful to you in your situation. When was the last time you look at analytics? What did you learn from it? What actions did you take? Are you really gaining anything from them? I think most personal blogs, for example, gain nothing from having analytics running. In fact I'd argue almost all non-commercial activity has no reason to gather analytics.
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#8What are good self-hosted alternatives? Something like Webalizer, but a bit more modern.
Re: An alternative to using Google Analytics on your website
#9I've been using Simple Analytics* and it's been great so far! Tbh I just want to see how many page views, on which pages, and where they're coming from. None of the google tracking bs
Plausible looks nice though, so maybe I'll check that out too
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#10I like that they gave some alternatives. With the web there are a lot of crusade like topics that while technically correct the maelstrom of finger waving blog posts really don't seem to change much and few really offer workable solutions to accomplish the goals that doing the thing they don't want you to do accomplishes.
One alternative that should be seriously considered is not having analytics at all. I don't doubt that they're useful for many people in many situations, but consider whether they're useful to you in your situation. When was the last time you look at analytics? What did you learn from it? What actions did you take? Are you really gaining anything from them? I think most personal blogs, for example, gain nothing from…
I think that's a valid argument that is there in the blog post.
I do like that they did actually include some alternatives that still were analytics.