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If you want real numbers just parse your server log. I stopped using analytics years ago because in average it would only show half of my actual traffic. Goacce
by herbst 5y ago
If you want real numbers just parse your server log. I stopped using analytics years ago because in average it would only show half of my actual traffic. Goaccess works great.
- sleavey 5y agoIronically this is how it was done before Google Analytics.
- herbst 5y agoI even remember many refusing to use Google analytics for privacy reasons for a few years until everyone got lazy I guess
- rchaud 5y agoHow do you filter bot traffic from your server logs? If all you are looking for is a 'hit counter', then GA is overkill. It's value is not in providing page traffic data, but in tracking things like click events, ecommerce funnels, marketing campaigns, A/B testing etc.
- herbst 5y ago> How do you filter bot traffic from your server logs? That's a option for goaccess --ignore-crawlers Honestly I am not doing a lot of tracking on my users, the few campaigns I run I simply track within my application. That way I also don't miss any relevant Events. Also a lot of my traffic is from tech people, so using anything like GA would also only show a small part of the audience I actually mostly care about.