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That would be best, I tried to run it for me but my needs are too simple for a full-blown solution like that. I'm currently trying to just add a tracking image to my own server so I can count visits.
Server logs?
I've worked in web analytics for the last 4 years. It's a bit annoying that OP doesn't differentiate "analytics tools" and "marketing tools", nearly every site I've worked on doubles the site load speed due to some arcane synchronous-only loading iFrame. Server side seems like a good idea until you realise how many bots there are on the internet (which the business doesn't care about), how hard it is to implement (on…
Your static images could do with high-DPI versions of them (via `srcset="… 2x"` and the likes), or using SVG, so that they’re not fuzzy.
So the author assumes that the reader doesn’t use ad blockers, nor incognito mode for porn. Who is this post’s audience? Fox News viewers? Yes, websites are bloated with ads and trackers, but we have tools to eliminate them.
The problem with web analytics is that it is a low barrier to entry. I have a saying - 'if you can't code then do SEO' - and far too many companies have some inexperienced, non-technical squeaky wheel insistent on the overbearing analytics. It is not just the tracking scripts, there is a whole universe of snakeoil built on top of that. In ecommerce there are tracking script things that promise to deliver you the ulti…
Disclaimer: I'm a bit of a GA power user; although being on the technical side, I'm not really sympathetic towards the marketing uses for analytical data. There's a tough line to draw between excessive and sufficient instrumentation for a given app, and a business will probably opt for more than less data. I'm not sure that's a moral argument against tools like GA, though. Especially given one particularly compelling…
> Anonymize/obliterate the IP/geolocation info? Override the IP field to a static value. This might affect the IP you see in the GA dashboard, but it's worth noting that Google still get the user's IP as long as the client makes any connection to a Google server (via JS or pixel). > you can even implement measurement protocol serverside This is the only way for a site owner to truly get full control over what data yo…
FWIW for non-tracking share buttons, there's also Shariff: https://github.com/heiseonline/shariff
That is fantastic, thank you! I'll add them to the article right now, and my site as soon as I can integrate them.
I fully agree on the social buttons but Google Analytics is so much more than just a statcounter. Goal tracking and segmentation are invaluable tools that I believe no other tool provides. And before you complain that 'spying on your users isn't needed to make money', try working at a large corporation. Things just don't work the way you (ideally) want to. You can only say "no" so many times before someone else steps…
I mean, something else really wrong must have happened in core business for this to be an actual issue.
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Nope it will fire again after 30 minutes but not continuously
I don't think the web pixel will, that just runs on page load, unless you have some fancy JS to do other things (but then you could just call the event directly).
I've worked in web analytics for the last 4 years. It's a bit annoying that OP doesn't differentiate "analytics tools" and "marketing tools", nearly every site I've worked on doubles the site load speed due to some arcane synchronous-only loading iFrame. Server side seems like a good idea until you realise how many bots there are on the internet (which the business doesn't care about), how hard it is to implement (on…
What's the difference between the two in how they affect load times? As far as I know, there's no clear delineation.