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> they seem to be harder to track these days. Most of my personal network uses adblock, ghostery, or other similar extensions to stay off the radar, so their vi
by SyneRyder 10y ago
> they seem to be harder to track these days. Most of my personal network uses adblock, ghostery, or other similar extensions to stay off the radar, so their visits don't show up
You could still track some of them using server logs, and a desktop log analysis tool (like Web Log Storming [1]). As long as they're downloading the HTML, their access will have to show up in the server log. Not as convenient as logging into Google Analytics, but with the amount of spamming of GA lately, I've been thinking more about going back to old desktop tools to solve some of my metrics questions.
[1] http://www.weblogstorming.com/ http://www.weblogstorming.com/
- thenaterhood 10y agoTrue. I'm running off Gitlab pages right now so I don't control the webserver, although I could drop a tracking pixel in that loads off a server I do control. It does make it a little harder to determine new vs returning visitors though. Not impossible, but harder. To me, knowing that is more important because that's how you know you have an audience, versus just a bunch of people visiting from HackerNews, for example.