Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D...
by lifeisstillgood on Thursday October 29, 2015 @09:39PM
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Well partly I'm asking the same question - what am I missing? CSS and other CDN based stuff I get, but hosting my own analytics? Where does one start - what can be measured, what is worth measuring? What else is done on these 10MB JS downloads we all get these days?
I suppose there is a job of work to be done downloading the top 1Million web sites and seeing what crap comes through the door - but would be nice to know what the OP is replacing and with what so I know what is derigeur these days
Re:Ad Blockers Are Also Changing the Game for SaaS and Web D...
by roel_v on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:05AM
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Oh OK then we're on the same page and I don't have much advise.
Maybe just that you can look at Piwik analytics - open source and you can host it yourself.
Html/dynamic pages, images, CSS, js, fonts, analytics all from the same server (or at least same domain), and as much squashed together to avoid requests, that was the 'best practice' when I was still 'current'. I don't really understand either what else there would be.
(sorry if I'm an annoying old fart in the rest of this remark but I went back to desktop software 15 years ago (yes that sounds weird) and the last 2-4 years I have more and more troubles understanding discussions on modern web development as everything that was once considered Very Bad is now not only encouraged, but taken as the natural state of affairs - e.g. javascript for core functionality, the 'css is bad, do it in javascript' movement, 'semantic markup should not even be attempted', 'frontend frameworks', ...)
So yeah my question is not sarcastic, I'm just asking for some context.