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Re: My Messy Analytics Breakup

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Post by pabs3 » Sun, May 31, 2020, 11:33 AM UTC

There are open source analytics tools, Matomo is one of them:

Re: My Messy Analytics Breakup

#22

Post by robin_reala » Sun, May 31, 2020, 11:55 AM UTC

I guess the next step is to dump analytics completely and save your dopamine for the things that matter. It’s one thing if you’re a large organisation making iterative changes to a service based on usage data from analytics, but what changes are you going to make to your blogging based on your analytics?

Re: My Messy Analytics Breakup

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Post by Aeolun » Sun, May 31, 2020, 12:09 PM UTC

robin_reala wrote: post #22

I guess the next step is to dump analytics completely and save your dopamine for the things that matter. It’s one thing if you’re a large organisation making iterative changes to a service based on usage data from analytics, but what changes are you going to make to your blogging based on your analytics?

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Re: My Messy Analytics Breakup

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Post by xellisx » Sun, May 31, 2020, 2:07 PM UTC

pabs3 wrote: post #21

There are open source analytics tools, Matomo is one of them: https://matomo.org/

This is what Piwik ended up renaming itself To. I use Piwik 10 years ago, I remember it being nice.

Re: My Messy Analytics Breakup

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Post by pachico » Mon, Jun 01, 2020, 1:27 PM UTC

I am building a web analytics platform that in theory could be a decent substitute for GA. I'd like to share some notes with you.

In addition to all you have mentioned, GA has a problem now called adblockers. It's actually not a problem for them as much as it is for website owners. Depending on the country, independent agencies say adblockers are present in more than 30% of browsers. I can't imagine what kind of business intelligence tool provides that amount of error and is still considered ok.