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Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by Zolomon »

abhin4v wrote: post #19

Why not use a self-hosted analytics software like https://matomo.org/ ?

I wish they had a simple Docker image available with everything setup and configurable from a single file. The installation process is complex and under documented, IMHO. But the software is pretty nice!

Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by taormina »

busymom0 wrote: post #18
taormina wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it is incredibly fair to say that you shouldn't put data onto the servers of a company if you mind them reading that data. Why should I assume they aren't? At a bare minimum, the metadata is being actively consumed by the parent company. I don't think this is AWS specific at all.

If this was the case, I think we would have had some amazon whistleblower already blow this info and would be widely reported on.

I'm not accusing Amazon or anyone else of anything in particular. I'm just reminding people that even if you encrypt all of your data at rest, that at a minimum, every service provider of something like AWS is collecting plenty of metadata about your data. They have to. How else can they tell where your data is and track how much they need to charge you?

Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by ifcho »

Zolomon wrote: post #21
abhin4v wrote: post #19

Why not use a self-hosted analytics software like https://matomo.org/ ?

I wish they had a simple Docker image available with everything setup and configurable from a single file. The installation process is complex and under documented, IMHO. But the software is pretty nice!

Why do you need Docker for a simple PHP & MySQL script? To install it you just need to setup a MySQL database and enter the credentials in the setup script. Finally, add the tracking code to your site, but that's the same for every analytics engine.

Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by acidburnNSA »

For those of you hosting on your own server, this is a PSA that awstats is still working. It reads server logs and makes little graphs via a cron job. It's fun to have analytics going back to 2002 in the same format.

https://awstats.sourceforge.io/

Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by TomK32 »

pknerd wrote: post #23

I could not find organic traffic details like keywords that bring visitors to the site?

That's because it's getting harder and harder to get that info from the referrer. Better to use the Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tool, those will give you information even on those search queries that did list your pages but not lead to a click.

Re: Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-based analytics

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Post by wwweston »

pknerd wrote: post #23

I could not find organic traffic details like keywords that bring visitors to the site?

Once upon a time you could get this information from the HTTP_REFERER header, since search terms were essentially encoded in the query string portion of the URL the search results showed up on.

Not sure how that holds up these days.

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