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> Here's a crazy idea: Don't use analytics at all but focus on your product. Here's even crazier one: Just do analytics on the backend instead?! You don't nee
by ivanhoe 6y ago
> Here's a crazy idea: Don't use analytics at all but focus on your product.
Here's even crazier one: Just do analytics on the backend instead?!
You don't need GA, nor 3rd party tracking cookies, just a simple session ID and a proper web-server's log analyzer, and you can get almost all of the same metrics.
You can nowadays even sniff on clients' screen resolutions and other browser details using just img srcset, css and log analyzers.
- walshemj 6y agoAnd ho many developer hours are you spending doing this at scale? - I doing this in 95 doing this for BT worldwide's Intranet.