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I think it's a nice idea and probably fits the use case of some small blogs, but for anything that's more serious you'd want much more than just unique visitors
by arielm 10y ago
I think it's a nice idea and probably fits the use case of some small blogs, but for anything that's more serious you'd want much more than just unique visitors and referrers.
If you have a website that is making you money (saas service, blog with ads, etc), these two basic metrics mean very little. Segmentation, conversion funnels, device/os info, etc are necessities.
Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back.
- josephernest 10y agoThis is the reason, at least for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674984 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674984 15 or 30 seconds per day, instead of several minutes + twenty clicks in a row on UI elements (too annoying for me). -- Yes, as I mentioned on README.md, it's cool for small or middle-sized websites, but not for more advanced use cases. But then, if you use OWA or Piwik, be prepared with bugs, slow UI with the default settings (I tried several times, with different servers), etc.
- JD557 10y ago> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back. I can think of some reasons from the top of my head: * It works even if the user is using a blocker; * You don't have to add a script that's constantly making AJAX calls, so you site should load and run faster;
- jms18 10y ago> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back. I still use it, and I find many discrepancies between the server logs and what appears in Google Analytics. And having the raw NCSA logs allows me to run specialized queries on the data.