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Probably because there isn’t a good free analytics service that is easy to use (no need for self-hosting) and is able to collect the info that one wants. GA is free, and easy.
Piwik is free and does everything GA does. You can self host the analytics dashboard so no 3rd party privacy issues.
I think I can spot my blog in the Analytics section, I guess I'm the only one using Gauges as analytics.
I suspect that the larger-than-one-might-expect representation here for Erlang and Cowboy (an Erlang web server) is caused by sites hosted on Heroku, which would return Cowboy/Vegur in the Server header, rather than because many HN users are actually maintaining Erlang application servers to serve their blogs.
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You can take it as read that people who write blog posts do that to share them with the broader community. Could one of you downvoters please explain why you think people would post blog posts if they do not want to share them? I fail to see how that would be possible.
One reason is they don't actually want the "broader" community to see them. More than once I've seen people lament the fact that the "orange site" picked up one of their posts. There are Twitter accounts dedicated to making fun of things people say in the comments here. There are people who wrote scripts that do special things when the referrer to their site is HN.
Bonus if you can segment the data by date as well so we can see trends over time.
A person that builds such a system would have access to some pretty useful data.
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That’s a fair point! I would have to read HN’s terms of use though. Not sure if that’s allowed or not. I felt good scrapping the comments section since everyone there “opted in “ to share their website to the broader community.
You can take it as read that people who write blog posts do that to share them with the broader community. Could one of you downvoters please explain why you think people would post blog posts if they do not want to share them? I fail to see how that would be possible.
Ultimately, though, all the sharing of our blog URLs and this related discussion made me realize that I didn't really want an audience, so I killed off my domain.
I think I can spot my blog in the Analytics section, I guess I'm the only one using Gauges as analytics.
All of my other attributes were in the majority (Hugo, Google Analytics, etc...)
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One reason is they don't actually want the "broader" community to see them. More than once I've seen people lament the fact that the "orange site" picked up one of their posts. There are Twitter accounts dedicated to making fun of things people say in the comments here. There are people who wrote scripts that do special things when the referrer to their site is HN.
Can you point me to some of those twitters? Sounds entertaining.
It's interesting, and telling, that Windows/IIS doesn't appear at all. Or did I miss something?
Long story short, two completely separate backends each running on most reliable platform for the stack. And nginx is in front of it all. Ping the root domain and you’ll think you are on a big-standard Linux/nginx confit, even though it definitely is not.
So don’t assume no IIS!