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Why do people need things like Google Analytics when they can just self-host? I thought the reason people rather use actual Google Analytics is Google's ability
by qwerty456127 4y ago
Why do people need things like Google Analytics when they can just self-host? I thought the reason people rather use actual Google Analytics is Google's ability to track specific people across multiple websites and promote websites with Analytics in the search results. But 3-rd party alternatives can't do this anyway or can they?
- weird-eye-issue 4y ago> I thought the reason people rather use actual Google Analytics is Google's ability to track specific people across multiple websites and promote websites with Analytics in the search results. This... isn't possible
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- layer8 4y agoYes. There are a number of powerful self-hostable open-source website analytics solutions, for example https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo https://github.com/matomo-org/matomo.
- acatton 4y agomatomo and goatcounter are nice, but there are even solutions which don't need any extra CPU or any extra client request: • https://goaccess.io/ https://goaccess.io/ • https://www.awstats.org/ https://www.awstats.org/ Both of them are free/open-source.
- weird-eye-issue 4y agoThis is pretty old school, lots of sites these days don't have server logs
- teekert 4y agoMatomo is nice, and a 1 click install in Wordpress as well.
- tin7in 4y agoSelf-hosting is a pain for technical teams, let alone the average user of GA who doesn't really want to deal with self hosting at all. My experience with self-hosted solution (Posthog) was really bad and we had to switch to their cloud-based option.
- XCSme 4y agoA pain in what sense? I self-host my own stuff and had fewer issues than with services. I also know many people self-hosting their own platforms, and they rarely encounter problems. Stuff usually doesn't break by itself, it breaks when things are changed.
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