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Can everyone please just stop using google analytics Webserver logs give you all the information you should want about how users look at your page, and don't v

• jaredsohn 13y ago
  I don't think github gives users access to the logs. Also, Google Analytics provides a more convenient way of looking through the data, more information, and alerts. It also lets you view the data for multiple sites at once.
  • nfoz 13y ago
    Github could provide their users access to those logs. And if convenient log analyzers do not exist in 2014, that sounds like a great project to put on.... Github.
    • konklone 13y ago
      I've heard good things about self-hosted, open source Piwik: http://piwik.org/ http://piwik.org/
• actionscripted 13y ago
  Google Analytics and the rest do more than just log web traffic details. They also offer event tracking and real-time stats, with a decent UI, so that your marketing director or boss can easily jump in and check things out. I realize there are similar offerings that don't require a third party but I don't see them as equal alternatives.
• fideloper 13y ago
  Server logs display requests that reach the server. This has the potential to become problematic if you have an intermediary proxy of some sort (CDN, cache, SaaS based proxy) which you may or may not get access logs from. GA, or any java-script based snippet, has the potential to be more accurate in that sense.