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I'm very curious why an anonymous site that doesn't even allow registered users gets 100k worth of cookies on a typical connection. Not saying you're doing any
by mapgrep 13y ago
I'm very curious why an anonymous site that doesn't even allow registered users gets 100k worth of cookies on a typical connection.
Not saying you're doing anything wrong, just curious. I assume some of it is for ad tracking, but that's still a hell of a lot of data!
- moot 13y agoWell it's a single kilobyte, but 100 KB in aggregate. It's almost entirely Google Analytics, unfortunately. Our ads are served from a different domain (4chan-ads.org) for specifically this reason (user privacy and cookie bloat).
- Jhsto 13y agoHave you ever thought of running server-side analytics?
- moot 13y agoYes, but every time I've investigated it, the tl;dr was "not worth it" given our requirements/constraints. Google Analytics has its shortcomings, but it's a great product and free.
- sdoering 13y agoSo you never encountered any problems with the free usage tier and its limitations? Asking out of curiosity, as we use it as well and break the hit-limits every month. My direct supervisor asked me, if I envisioned problems, and I told him, Google does not guarantee, but delivers non the less (as far as I knew at that time). How do you feel about the believability of the data?
- bdt101 13y agoThe newest version of Google Analytics eliminates most of the cookie bloat. There's now just a single id cookie that's around 30 bytes or so. https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/upgrade/ https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection...
- moot 13y agoWasn't aware of this (but was hoping it was in the works) -- thanks a bunch!