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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by chuckouellet on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:13PM (#10473948)
Charles, Snipcart co-founder here. As mentioned by the end of the post, we're actively looking to expand our analytics game a bit. Piwik seems like a good place to start, so thanks for sharing. Cheers!
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by tombrossman on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:22PM (#10474001)
Try running it alongside GA and comparing stats. I did this for a while and switched to Piwik as it consistently counted more visits (legitimate visits, obviously).

Also, please consider adding your Google Analytics use to your privacy policy. They require it, even though most people ignore this requirement and there is no enforcement.

Side note, I just tried @ replying to your companies post on Twitter and got a @your account may not be allowed to perform this action' http://i.imgur.com/9uoEn9B.png Strange, never saw that before...

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by chuckouellet on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:39PM (#10474106)
We received some mentions in the last minutes, and we just reviewed our account settings, nothing seems problematic on our end. Weird indeed. But thanks for the feedback!
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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by HNaTTY on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:11PM (#10474739)
> (legitimate visits, obviously)

That's an important point; I'm seeing referral spam in my GA reports which I never noticed before 2015. I manually discount it when compiling reports, and my understanding is that these spammers hit GA UAs at random without even loading your website.

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Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D... by snowwrestler on Thursday October 29, 2015 @06:57PM (#10475004)
It's incredible easy to filter this out in GA. Just set a filter or segment that only counts traffic from your known hostnames.
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