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It is now mostly unusable for web analytics. So many scrapers are pretending to be browsers. On my site, there is a factor 10 with what I consider an honest vie
by vbernat 2mo ago
It is now mostly unusable for web analytics. So many scrapers are pretending to be browsers. On my site, there is a factor 10 with what I consider an honest view of human visitors.
- janvdberg 2mo agoYes, this is unfortunately my experience with GoAccess
- joshyi 2mo agoIf you're using it to serve the marketing team, then yeah. We use it more for server performance and metrics that cookie-cutter JS analytics tools can't really provide. btw, JS-based analytics are no longer as accurate for identifying "real humans" as they used to be. bots have gotten much better at behaving like a person behind a keyboard, so it's increasingly easy for them to make your analytics tool think they're a real user
- vbernat 2mo agoThis is not untrue, but I suppose that if you don't prevent bots from accessing your website, they won't try to use the more advanced scrapers running JS and won't trigger your analytics.
- herbst 2mo agoWhen customers ask me for visitor metrics I tend to explain that it doesn't matter anymore before I show them them the highly inflated absolutely unrealistic numbers.