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by dvko 7y ago
The plugin issues a tracking request using a tiny client-side JS script, so most of those bots will already be omitted (as lots will most likely not be executing JavaScript or have `navigator.doNotTrack` enabled). That said, I believe some
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by dvko 7y ago
I’ve been doing it for the last 10 years and have built other analytics tools before (Ana in 2016, then Fathom in 2018) as well, so it was super easy to build for me. But if you’re new to WordPress, I think the process won’t be that enjoyab
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by dvko 7y ago
Hah, I somewhat understand the former and fully agree with the latter. For what it’s worth, I hoped building it for WordPress would allow me to reach the most people who would otherwise be left-out by other self-hosted tools (by a lack of s
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by dvko 7y ago
We do - I’ll see if we can add in a warning message if changing that setting while a lot of data has already been tracked. Or perhaps mark it in the graph, so the difference comes with an explanation. What would you do?
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by dvko 7y ago
Thanks! Current though? The plugin supports PHP versions all the way back to 5.3 (which has been EOL for nearly 5 years). Although I certainly recommend running a current PHP version of course.
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by dvko 7y ago
That’s how I feel too. Thank you so much for your contribution, I’ll make sure to get it reviewed soon so the language pack can be shipped.
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by dvko 7y ago
Not an option as the plugin does not store anything visitor specific, not even for a second. Would make it considerably harder to scale as well.
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by dvko 7y ago
Sure, without issues. All (standard and custom) post types are supported!
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by dvko 7y ago
Sorry, this is indeed what I meant to say. Will update the text!
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by dvko 7y ago
Hey, glad you ask because I feel strongly about this! We're absolutely against fingerprinting as I believe it's better (for the visitor) to just use a cookie in those cases, since they retain control that way. (Delete cookie = be
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by dvko 7y ago
The plugin doesn't use IP addresses at all, so this isn't needed. There is an option to determine returning visitors using a cookie (easiest, realiable) but it can be turned off. When not using a cookie, the plugin will look at th
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by dvko 7y ago
With the plugin active, you can load the tracking script manually and it will work. That said, it could probably be made easier. How would you like to see this?
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by dvko 7y ago
Hey, this uses a tracking request that is initiated client-side. So even if the page is not generated dynamically, Koko Analytics will work just fine.
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by dvko 7y ago
Hey, developer here. Thank you, would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions for it. PS. Since this is brought up all the time: in case anyone wonders why this feels similar to Fathom Analytics, it is because I built the initial open-so
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by dvko 7y ago
The SEO framework (slug: autodescription) is great and performs about 30x as good as Yoast SEO in terms of processing time. They’re also pretty strict about sticking to WordPress’ native styles.
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by dvko 7y ago
It has been addressed and their CEO offered hundreds of apologies on Twitter. It is definitely not okay and I would still not use them as there are better plugins out there, but they (now) say they made a mistake and owned it.
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by dvko 7y ago
Close to 20.000 emails, ~4.5 GB in size. Tried using Google's data takeout first, but imapsync worked way better (while slower).
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by dvko 7y ago
Yes. And comes with a neat status page to warn you of any issues in case things change (but they shouldn't if you use a dedicated box).
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by dvko 7y ago
I've been running Mailinabox since late 2016 and have experienced 0 issues with downtime or my emails being flagged as spam. It did take a few weeks to train SpamAssassin to properly flag incoming email as spam but that worked very wel
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by dvko 7y ago
Integrations with popular services for legacy codebases. Preferrably for a service the user is already paying for. Personally my product is “X for WordPress”, where X is a marketing tool that grew a lot over the last decade.
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by dvko 7y ago
I fully agree with this sentiment. I myself piggy-backed my product (or rather: feature) on a much langer company which was growing like crazy and have been able to grow it to a comfortable $40.000 per month over the last 6 years. It’s just
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by dvko 7y ago
Email, using mailinabox.email. Highly recommend it. Also NextCloud (files, contacts and calendar), few WordPress websites and Fathom for website analytics.
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by dvko 7y ago
This almost reads like a joke. Rough up your life by carrying your own groceries and not flying first class? Really? And yeah, the mansion in a state specificially chosen to pay as little tax as possible plus accompanying Ferrari and staff
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by dvko 8y ago
How are you hosting your blog? If you're already self-hosting that, please know that you can easily host a Fathom instance using SQLite (because easy) on that same server without having to worry of it eating up your system resources. F
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by dvko 8y ago
I dropped out of college at 22 with a huge amount of student debt to start a business while traveling through Asia & the US (am from Europe). After the business took off and the money, countries or the countless short-term friendships s
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by dvko 8y ago
https://GoAccess.io is great for analysing access logs. That said, there are solutions where a cookie allows for greater privacy because it allows you to leave sensitive data on the client versus having to store it on the server
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by dvko 8y ago
Check out Fathom Analytics. It's open-source, modern, only tracks aggregates and can handle up to 20.000 pageviews per second on a cheap $3/month VPS. http://github.com/usefathom/fathom There is a hosted vers
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by dvko 8y ago
If this list were named "alternatives to Google products" then I'd say it is a good list. But privacy friendly? How so exactly? There are several closed-source proprietary services on the list, with better (in terms of nearly
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by dvko 8y ago
But you're paying a closed-source and for-profit company instead, so how exactly is that better than Matomo or Fathom?

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