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by jhpacker 3y ago
I do know Plausible, and their motivation is to make a sustainable business providing basic web analytics, which is why they charge for their service and Google doesn't. The data they provide to the users of their service is like an or
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Cloudflare Web Analytics is extremely simplistic and does not allow for any persistent identification of users or storage of personal information. It uses HTTP Referrers to count visitors and that's it. One could argue that since it&#x
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by jhpacker 3y ago
My opinion is that this applies to GA4 as well. The decisions don't explicitly mention a version, they say these particular sites: "...shall cease to use the version of the Google Analytics tool used on 14 August 2020". They
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Most alternatives are not made by advertising companies, but they also frequently aren't free... Rolling your own from the ground up is not necessary or typically advisable when there are so many good options, including many self-hoste
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Interesting, what kind of cookies? Like I say in the article Lou Montulli from Netscape is generally credited with creating the HTTP cookie, which they named cookie based upon magic cookies in unix, though its obviously quite a bit differen
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by jhpacker 3y ago
This is a great way to unpack that phrase, thank you! I started the article with that phrase because of the insincere absurdity of it exactly as you describe.
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by jhpacker 3y ago
I agree that most people would not mind that scenario, the issue is that that scenario requires the same consent box that the most invasive adtech would use and it's far too onerous on the user as things are now to discern the differen
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Hey, 3x more people clicked that then "I've reviewed the site's terms and they are acceptable to me." :)
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Hi, the exact wording on the poll was "If given the option, I would prefer not to be tracked online." The reason why I didn't define "tracked" for the people taking the poll is that I think that's the most rep
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Who wants to be tracked?(quantable.com)
189 points by jhpacker 3y ago|267 comments
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50% of purchase journeys start at Amazon(powerreviews.com)
2 points by jhpacker 3y ago|0 comments
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Comparison site for digital analytics tools(newmetrics.io)
38 points by jhpacker 3y ago|13 comments
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by jhpacker 3y ago
The scaling issues I'm talking about are on the reporting side, not the measurement side. With Clickhouse you can do complex analytics queries on live data, with MySQL as you say you may need to pre-gen with cronjobs, etc.
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by jhpacker 3y ago
You've probably already discovered this, but the only way you drill down is with filters. You can ad-hoc define a page filter with multiple URLs, but you can't (to my knowledge) save that filter set, and content grouping UA-style
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by jhpacker 3y ago
For self-hosted, if you are doing into the tens of thousands of pageviews per day you may want to turn off real-time and switch to auto-archiving which pregens reports. That level of traffic depends a lot though on the report period you are
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by jhpacker 3y ago
No SEO effects. If anything there could be a slight advantage to using Plausible over GA because the JS tracker is much smaller, though in practice I would not expect any SEO impact. Plausible is much simpler than UA, all the reporting is o
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by jhpacker 3y ago
https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/5347
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by jhpacker 3y ago
The performance issues aren't with the measurement requests but with reporting. When I eval'd it for my book last fall there were big delays in reporting waiting for segments and then also issues with custom reports. I think they
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by jhpacker 3y ago
I believe AdNauseam uses EasyList, so if it doesn't include the EasyPrivacy part of that (which contains the trackers) by default it seems like it would be easy to add. That said, I don't think this is an effective strategy at all
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Loved AWStats! Still can be useful — but bots, client side caching, CDNs, and did I mention bots..? have made the data hard to rely on for much. A while ago I switched from AWStats to GoAccess ( https://goaccess.io/ ) for thi
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Piwik Pro is SOC2 certified.
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by jhpacker 3y ago
ITP now also degrades first party server-set cookies to 7 days where the first part of the IPs don't match. So if you're using CNAMEs for your measurement and the you have a.a.x.x and b.b.x.x it will downgrade.
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by jhpacker 3y ago
GA4 still uses the doubleclick cookie. It also encourages the use of Google Signals and runs measurement requests off of the main google.com domain to help it track users based upon their Google login.
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by jhpacker 3y ago
To defend this site, that is the claim of the vendor and I wouldn't expect a site that focuses on listing EU alternatives to be critically evaluating a claim like that which hasn't been explicitly nay-sayed by any regulatory agenc
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by jhpacker 3y ago
Matomo is decent, but my main issue with it is the performance when run at any sort of scale. It's PHP/MySQL, which is nice for ease of self-hosting, but it means a lot of things need to be pre-calculated. Most of the newer and mo
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by jhpacker 4y ago
Cloudflare has two different analytics products which makes things pretty confusing. "Web analytics" is always free and under Analytics > Web Analytics at the account level. That's the one you want, not "traffic analy
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by jhpacker 4y ago
Thanks for the suggestion. I've added it to my list of alternatives that I'm tracking, but it doesn't appear to have the install base required for inclusion in my book yet. I'm currently looking for GA alternatives that
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by jhpacker 4y ago
The majority of GA alternatives use cookies, which of course do allow tracking returning visitors. If you're asking what GA alternatives don't use cookies but DO allow tracking returning visitors, then the list gets pretty limited
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by jhpacker 4y ago
As others have mentioned, the most popular simplified ones are: Cloudflare Web Analytics, Fathom, and Plausible. Cloudflare (as well as Simple Analytics) use only HTTP referrer to count visits, which makes them the most privacy-friendly but
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Why Are We All So Bad at Math?(quantable.com)
4 points by jhpacker 4y ago|0 comments

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