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Principles Behind Effective Web Analytics and How to Avoid Wasting Your Time
- angersock 11y agoOut of curiosity, is anyone aware of a NodeJS analytics package that doesn't need to call out to somebody else's server? Just for basic site visit and device type tracking? Or will I actually have to spend like two hours to hack one together? :\
- marcosdumay 11y ago> Just for basic site visit and device type tracking? Like Awstats?
- angersock 11y agoSure, but in Node. Also, something I can manually trigger events in ala Google Analytics (useful for SPAs).
- carlmcqueen 11y agoSo, this article has a social bar covering the text on the left on my chrome browser and popped up a 'subscribe' window. The bar was covering text I was trying to read, especially since I do heavy analytics at a major financial institution on a daily basis. Ended up leaving me disappointed.
- rubenugarte 11y agoHey, writer of the article here. What browser are you using? It will help me fix the that bug you mentioned of the social bar covering the text. Thanks!
- wlesieutre 11y agoI had the same experience in Firefox http://i.imgur.com/r4iaj24.png http://i.imgur.com/r4iaj24.png
- dmichulke 11y agoThis is only about website analytics and not nearly as general as the title suggests.
- dang 11y agoOk, we added "web" to the title.
- elchief 11y agoOh this is about Google analytics. I wish you people could pick a unique term for your discipline. Analytics is older than Google.
- j_s 11y agoThere are a few simple gotchas to avoid when setting up analytics. The first one that comes to my mind is to separate customers from employees - ignore access to the site from the corporate IP address(es). Does anyone else have any additional recommendations that are best applied from the get-go?