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Seems like a big miss on their part. I love Netlify and I use them for my personal site. When I got their newsletter email announcing this, the first thought th

by iooi 7y ago

Seems like a big miss on their part. I love Netlify and I use them for my personal site. When I got their newsletter email announcing this, the first thought that entered my head was: "Finally! I can take Google Analytics off my site. About time a serious contender took on GA." Unfortunately this costs $108/year more than GA. And while there are a couple of GA alternatives out there, having the financial backing of someone like Netlify makes a big difference. I don't want to think about analytics, I just want to know roughly how much traffic my site is getting, not having to worry about an open source project dying in the next year and having to find yet another replacement.

cameronbrown 7y ago
GA is nice for client-side stuff, but Adblock has made the numbers completely unreliable, especially for tech-focused content. Instead I prefer to just use server-side logs. At my tiny scale it's easy to just assume each IP is a unique, and people are free to block GA without affecting my metrics.
- usmannk 7y ago
  What solutions do you recommend for server side logging? I've come to a similar conclusion as you as far as what's actually reasonably necessary.
  - dragonsh 7y ago
    Try https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/ works very well for us with haproxy cluster and rsyslog for central logging for all web and api requests. We run goaccess in real-time mode processing 100000 requests per day with local ip to city database.
  - aldoushuxley001 7y ago
    I've always heard GoAccess recommended as the go-to solution for server side logging. Though I don't have personal experience with it, it does look amazing.
  - cameronbrown 7y ago
    Honestly I just wrote a small set of functions to log everything to Google Analytics via its measurement protocol[0]. I know I said I didn't use it client-side, but the dashboard is still top-notch for exploring analytics data and there's a ton of processing it does for free - IP to location is one. I also stream all logs into text files so I can process them later too. [0]https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/ https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...

by iooi 7y ago

cameronbrown 7y ago

GA is nice for client-side stuff, but Adblock has made the numbers completely unreliable, especially for tech-focused content. Instead I prefer to just use server-side logs. At my tiny scale it's easy to just assume each IP is a unique, and people are free to block GA without affecting my metrics.

usmannk 7y ago
What solutions do you recommend for server side logging? I've come to a similar conclusion as you as far as what's actually reasonably necessary.
- dragonsh 7y ago
  Try https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/ works very well for us with haproxy cluster and rsyslog for central logging for all web and api requests. We run goaccess in real-time mode processing 100000 requests per day with local ip to city database.
- aldoushuxley001 7y ago
  I've always heard GoAccess recommended as the go-to solution for server side logging. Though I don't have personal experience with it, it does look amazing.
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  Honestly I just wrote a small set of functions to log everything to Google Analytics via its measurement protocol[0]. I know I said I didn't use it client-side, but the dashboard is still top-notch for exploring analytics data and there's a ton of processing it does for free - IP to location is one. I also stream all logs into text files so I can process them later too. [0]https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/protocol/v1/ https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...