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Google Analytics and any JavaScript based analytics can only ever be regarded as indicative. If you think it measures your whole audience you're wrong. People
by buro9 16y ago
Google Analytics and any JavaScript based analytics can only ever be regarded as indicative.
If you think it measures your whole audience you're wrong. People might not finish load the page for example. Or they've ad-blocked the ga.js. Or they are using NoScript. Or they're using an accessibility layer.
It may be the majority of your audience, but I'm fairly sure that even with this add-on/extension that GA will still remain a good indicator of your audience size and your audience habits. That hasn't changed.
- nopal 16y agoI definitely don't think it measures my whole audience. I've just been comfortable with what I perceive as the size of the audience that I'm not measuring. I think the release of an easy-to-use, official plug-in at a time when people are up in arms over privacy could lead to less accurate statistics. It's too early to tell whether this plug-in will have a large effect of not. If it is talked about in the right places, it definitely could.
- Perceval 16y ago>Or they've ad-blocked the ga.js. That's what I've been doing. I've simply been using AdBlock Plus to prevent anything from Google Analytics from loading. I found that Google Analytics would often take the longest of any element to load, causing my browser's progress bar to spin indefinitely instead of finishing the page. Blocking Analytics entirely got around this annoyance. In any case, it's nice of Google to provide this to the privacy-conscious.
- enomar 16y agoAre you sure you weren't experiencing this bug? https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487638 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=487638