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We ditched Google Analytics

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Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#11

if all you need is counting a number of users, then you can use cloudflare analytics

Does Cloudflare have decent user permissions yet?

Last I checked, it wasn't possible to grant permissions to (for example) a marketing employee who you don't also want permission to edit DNS records.

Edit: I see "Role based account access" is a feature of their "Enterprise" / "request pricing" tier...

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#12

if all you need is counting a number of users, then you can use cloudflare analytics

Yes.

Analytics, Adsense, and DoubleClick for Publishers integrate for maximum ad revenue. Before replacing Google Analytics, it's better to create hundreds of apps and sites and start keeping your own stats on user context and intent.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#13

Nice, idea for someone (I wish I had time)... "Good Housekeeping Seal" for Analytics - Self host analytics - Don't use google analytics - Don't use tracking pixels (FB, Reddit, etc) - etc "Good Housekeeping Seal" for Billing Practices (in same vein, a little off topic though) - Can cancel your subscription online - Sends reminders prior to charging card (dark pattern on some sites) - Open receipt API to scrape out hi…

Together with jivings I'm working on a ethical code of conduct [1]. Please add more if you want. Happy to make this a standard for websites. Maybe add a seal as well.

[1] https://hackmd.io/EmPIHGhTRh6pDSJ1VEgkkA

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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How private is using localStorage for ID persistence instead of cookies for Google Analytics - and in general? It's what I'm using, but obviously it takes an expert to figure out just how much of an improvement it is. Apparently Service Workers can also be used. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

Seems to me like LocalStorage in this case is just a way to get around people deleting/blocking cookies. What would be the legitimate use?

> What would be the legitimate use?

Caching/storing GUI state and user configuration.

You (the server) doesn't need to know about LocalStorage contents. You can read and write from it via JS without ever sending that data somewhere. It actually improves privacy if done this way, because then the user owns the data and you just act upon it.

Unfortunately Apple thinks otherwise, they clear LocalStorage in Safari after a while by default.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Is anyone using an open source statistics system that's as simple as simple analytics? Maybe even something that can be setup to run stats for multiple clients from our own VPS?

Shameless plug, but PostHog is MIT licensed, open source product analytics [0]. You can use it for super simple pageview analytics and even give all of your clients their own team on one instance.

If you want something more advanced, we're comparable in features to Amplitude or Mixpanel too, but more engineering focussed.

[0] https://github.com/posthog/posthog

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

#17
Sounds great! Though I think GA has a "more-private" mode (though it still requires cookies).

Their product looks interesting, something like a collective inbox + Google Wave builtin

> How to run analytics without a consent banner? It is simple; don't use cookies nor collect personal information.

Again, please. Louder for the people in the back. Thanks

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Is anyone using an open source statistics system that's as simple as simple analytics? Maybe even something that can be setup to run stats for multiple clients from our own VPS?

There is also https://plausible.io/

I personally currently don't use any analytics, but they claim to be simple and lightweight so I keep an eye on them in case of future use.

Re: We ditched Google Analytics

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Is anyone using an open source statistics system that's as simple as simple analytics? Maybe even something that can be setup to run stats for multiple clients from our own VPS?

Freshlytics - https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics

* Cookies are not used

* Personally identifiable information (PII) is not collected

* See the pageview in different dimensions like page urls, referrers, browsers etc

* Supports multiple projects

* Supports RBAC

Screenshots - https://github.com/sheshbabu/freshlytics/blob/master/docs/sc...

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