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I genuinely don’t understand why you wouldn’t use a product like Heap or Amplitude to do this type of tracking
by justWells 4y ago
I genuinely don’t understand why you wouldn’t use a product like Heap or Amplitude to do this type of tracking
- bigyikes 4y agoEven if you use Amplitude, this could still be helpful information. I’m not sure what kind of APIs Amplitude provides, but we use it at my job. In my work, the details of Amplitude are abstracted away such that this information is still highly relevant. At a minimum, this kind of information is relevant to the people creating products like Heap or Amplitude.
- justWells 4y agoYou can just pass props to events like any other object data structure. I work at Heap and am just curious why you would still want to implement manually coded tracking.
- bigyikes 4y agoAt my company, the analytics APIs are provided by a platform team. I think there’s some utility in a company owning an abstraction away from a third party. Supposing if Amplitude (or Heap) were to ever go under, or if we were to want to change Analytics providers for whatever reason, it would be extremely helpful if the code didn’t depend directly on these third parties. On a smaller app, I would mostly likely directly use the Heap or Amplitude APIs. (Late reply, apologies)
- zmxz 4y agoUBlock blocks Amplitude. Nextdns blocks Amplitude. You get incomplete, inaccurate data. It's also fun and good for curiosity to do something on your own rathern than rely on a service and never think about what browsers can do.
- XCSme 4y agoIs this related to the article? How do you track time spend on page for a single page-visit using Heap? Don't they have to use a similar mechanism as described in the article?
- justWells 4y agoThat’s a tougher one. But you can just send the app time stamps and do a bit of math between events.