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An open-source, self-hostable solution providing 80% of common Google Analytics functionality seems doable to me. Is there anything out there in this realm? If not, why not?
http://snowplowanalytics.com/ is worth considering if you have larger volumes of traffic
We just entered private beta yesterday - https://cloudron.io/blog/2015-12-07-private-beta.html
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Without any "client identifying things" how would GA be able to chain several page hits into a session then? That is, do basic visits vs. hits split. If you are in fact anonymizing everything about a client as you claim you do, then it won't be able to. Unless, of course, you are feeding GA some opaque client ID that you then internally map to and from actual clients that hit your server. However something tells me t…
In the test I've done, sending no session/user data over, I lose all sense of a "session". But I do retain insight into what content has been viewed, how much, what is rising and falling, etc. The question really is what info are you really reporting on? AdBlockers make us blind and tracking is horrible, but I get to have a far more complete view over the simple stuff Urchin used to be great at.
Incidentally, I ran similar experiment with gaug.es few years ago - pulled on their tracking API from our server side. While it worked as expected, these sort of shenanigans are good for only one thing - hiding the fact that you are using 3rd party analytics from your visitors.
On a more general note - the thing is that you either care about other people's privacy or you don't. It's not a grayscale, it's binary. And if you do, there's no place for GA in the picture.
Not strictly on topic so I apologise if this is unwanted but I thought I'd share my experience with SpiderOak in case anyone here was thinking of purchasing one of their plans. In February SpiderOak dropped its pricing to $12/month for 1TB of data. Having several hundred gigabytes of photos to backup I took advantage and bought a year long subscription ($129). I had access to a symmetric gigabit fibre connection so I…
Many of these types of services seem to intentionally cap upload speeds to reduce their potential storage liability (since they're likely over-selling storage to be able to offer 1 TB for $12 with the level of redundancy, staffing costs, etc, needed). I wonder if that is happening in this specific case? Although if it were the case the vendor should still be honest about it. Just saying they limit uploads to 2 Mbps i…
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Have a look at piwik: http://piwik.org/
I don't recommend Piwik. Using MD5 for passwords in 2015 is beyond irresponsible. https://github.com/piwik/piwik/blob/7f375924db9328f20a0b7cb1... https://github.com/piwik/piwik/blob/6846145992278b52a2a35a8f...
How is tracking in house more private than GA? The user is still being tracked.
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I've been running a blocker to block GA and other junk on my PC, but I imagine I'm in a statistically insignificant minority. And I still can't block them on my iPhone unless I disable JavaScript entirely (though I'm running iOS 9, I'm not able to install a blocker for some reason; I guess Apple arbitrarily doesn't support them on my older iPhone model).
>I guess Apple arbitrarily doesn't support them on my older iPhone It's not arbitrary - it requires a 64 bit CPU (of which Apple has now shipped 3 generations of).
Yeah, I guess it's just time to get a friggin' new phone already, but this one ain't broke yet, ya know?
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Have a look at piwik: http://piwik.org/
I don't recommend Piwik. Using MD5 for passwords in 2015 is beyond irresponsible. https://github.com/piwik/piwik/blob/7f375924db9328f20a0b7cb1... https://github.com/piwik/piwik/blob/6846145992278b52a2a35a8f...
> Like lots of other companies with high traffic websites, we are a technology company; one with a deep team of software developer expertise. It took us only a few weeks to write our home-brew analytics package. I'm a little curious why they decided to go this route instead of using one of the open-source solutions. Aren't there good solutions to this problem already?
Writing your own is easy for the basic stuff. When you want to move beyond the basics, as Spider Oak will find, it becomes much more difficult.