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> no data collection (besides google analytics) No offense but this made me chuckle. „No data collection except a hook for the largest data collection machine
by embik 4y ago
> no data collection (besides google analytics)
No offense but this made me chuckle. „No data collection except a hook for the largest data collection machine on earth“
- sshine 4y agoHaha, yes, also made me laugh. If you want to collect data, there are privacy-friendly alternatives.
- louwhopley 4y agoAgreed. I really like CloudFlare’s built-in serverside analytics.
- jtheory 4y agoFathom takes privacy pretty seriously - they're still somewhat early stage in terms of functionality, but a great place to start.
- schleck8 4y agoThere is a ton of projects like this, all open source and free to selfhost: Plausible, Matomo, Offen, Posthog, Goatcounter, Umami. Or the built in analytics of the static site host like vercel/cloudflare
- vkoskiv 4y agogoaccess is also quite nice. It just reads the web server log for nginx or Apache and gives you a nice dashboard from that.
- baobabKoodaa 4y agoI can recommend Plausible.
- tipiirai 4y agoOne interesting option to look for is https://volument.com https://volument.com — which focuses on insights
- numlock86 4y agoWhat's does Google Analytics even bring to the table for projects like this?
- atoav 4y agoEverybody uses it, so there must be a reason it is needed /s
- dividedbyzero 4y agoI've asked that question quite a few times as well, and for most of the people I've had this conversation with, GA simply IS how you get metrics and insights, whether you're interested in anything advanced or just the number of pageviews, GA is how you get that in the same way as a hammer is how you get that nail into the wall. Plus it's well-known and relatively easy to troubleshoot (since there is a youtube video for pretty much any edge case), all the tech people know GA so chances are you won't have to troubleshoot much. There's also the ecosystem of tools and third-party products that tie into GA or GA BigQuery exports, that's also very important for some people as you can build some pretty impressive yet scary rube goldberg machinery out of GA and a bunch of these.
- toto444 4y agoYour comment sounds like an ad. I think what OP meant is 'why would one want to collect user data on a page that is a collection of 10 links?'. Just add a pageview counter if you really want some numbers.
- pc86 4y agoAnd for most people, "add GA" is how you add a pageview counter.
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