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"I also realised that I wasn’t even using up to 10% of the features provided by the service." Most of these people could get everything they want from just ana
by ss64 6y ago
"I also realised that I wasn’t even using up to 10% of the features provided by the service."
Most of these people could get everything they want from just analysing the webserver logs.
But I guess that isn't the modern way, a true web pro has just gotta load 12 frameworks to display a page of text.
- Ndymium 6y agoThat's a bit exaggerated. In OP's case, Plausible is one <1 KB file and it's easier to set up that than a log parser. My personal favourite thing about analytics that I haven't seen log parsers do is live statistics, showing people moving on the website. I made my own analytics thingie but Plausible and GA also provide this.
- loktarogar 6y agoMy time is limited. I'd rather spend that time gluing together other bits of functionality than reinventing each bit one by one, unless I have to
- rovr138 6y agoI’ve deployed this in the past. Analog[0], AWStat[1], W3Perl[2] are some that come to mind. [0] - https://www.c-amie.co.uk/software/analog/ https://www.c-amie.co.uk/software/analog/ [1] - https://github.com/eldy/awstats https://github.com/eldy/awstats [2] - http://www.w3perl.com http://www.w3perl.com
- snowwrestler 6y agoAbsolutely not. That’s how we all used to do website analytics and there is a reason client-side packages (like GA) won in the marketplace. They just work way better.
- satvikpendem 6y agoIf I use a CDN or another service like Netlify, I don't get any server side logs, so I must do tracking client side.
- ss64 6y agoThe load time of the Google Analytics script differs quite a lot depending on the time of day. https://royal.pingdom.com/google-analytics-script-loads-97-slower-at-peak-hours-in-europe/ https://royal.pingdom.com/google-analytics-script-loads-97-s...