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A bit of explanation about why this project: After years, I've noticed that I prefer to have few (important) informations about my websites, that I can consult

A bit of explanation about why this project: After years, I've noticed that I prefer to have few (important) informations about my websites, that I can consult each day in 30 seconds, rather than lots of informations for which I would need 15 or 30 minutes per day for an in-depth analysis. (When it took me 15 minutes per day, I finally watched the analytics only once every 2 weeks or so).

quakenul 10y ago
Well, fair enough, but what is stopping you from just not doing the indepth analysis when using something like google analytics? I mean the simple stuff is right there, easily and quickly accesible on the dashboard, with no need to follow up on any of it, right?
- josephernest 10y ago
  In Google Analytics, I would have to: * click on "Websites" (top left of http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg) * choose the right website in the list (http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg) * wait that the page reloads This, ten times in a row, which is annoying (once per website I manage). Conclusion: more time spent on clicking twenty times on UI elements than actually looking at the charts. I like to go super fast, now I open http://mywebsite.com/tinyanalytics/ http://mywebsite.com/tinyanalytics/, and I have an immediate overview of all the websites in 10 seconds.
  - Agres 10y ago
    Or you could just fetch the most imporant data from the GA API and show it in the same kind of view you built for TinyAnalytics.
    - josephernest 10y ago
      Good idea indeed! Haven't thought about it. Anyway learning how GA API works would have probably taken me more time than I actually used to write TinyAnalytics ;) If you have time to share on Github a ready-to-use GA API -> HTML renderer (just the numbers would be enough, I'll be able to do the chart rendering), it would be awesome, I'll probably use it too!

quakenul 10y ago

Well, fair enough, but what is stopping you from just not doing the indepth analysis when using something like google analytics? I mean the simple stuff is right there, easily and quickly accesible on the dashboard, with no need to follow up on any of it, right?

josephernest 10y ago
In Google Analytics, I would have to: * click on "Websites" (top left of http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg) * choose the right website in the list (http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg) * wait that the page reloads This, ten times in a row, which is annoying (once per website I manage). Conclusion: more time spent on clicking twenty times on UI elements than actually looking at the charts. I like to go super fast, now I open http://mywebsite.com/tinyanalytics/ http://mywebsite.com/tinyanalytics/, and I have an immediate overview of all the websites in 10 seconds.
- Agres 10y ago
  Or you could just fetch the most imporant data from the GA API and show it in the same kind of view you built for TinyAnalytics.
  - josephernest 10y ago
    Good idea indeed! Haven't thought about it. Anyway learning how GA API works would have probably taken me more time than I actually used to write TinyAnalytics ;) If you have time to share on Github a ready-to-use GA API -> HTML renderer (just the numbers would be enough, I'll be able to do the chart rendering), it would be awesome, I'll probably use it too!