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You are right, you don't need to know it in a small blog or site But metrics and statistics are the very foundation of science, and the graal of software engin
by augusto-moura 7y ago
You are right, you don't need to know it in a small blog or site
But metrics and statistics are the very foundation of science, and the graal of software engineering. I can't resist the temptation of knowing which browsers and the countries of the users of my website, or how many hacker news visitors come to it every other season, so many possibilities... sigh
- saagarjha 7y agoYou really don’t need to know that. I mean, it’s often (but not always: see the perils of optimizing for “clicks”) nice if you could, but you are actively trading the privacy of your visitors for that information.
- josteink 7y agoAnd you can determine all that from regular web-server logs. No need to snitch on your visitors to big G.