Re:Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-base...
by pknerd on Saturday May 11, 2019 @01:59AM
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I could not find organic traffic details like keywords that bring visitors to the site?
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Re:Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-base...
by TomK32 on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:09AM
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That's because it's getting harder and harder to get that info from the referrer. Better to use the Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tool, those will give you information even on those search queries that did list your pages but not lead to a click.
Re:Show HN: I replaced Google Analytics with simple log-base...
by wwweston on Saturday May 11, 2019 @02:10AM
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Once upon a time you could get this information from the HTTP_REFERER header, since search terms were essentially encoded in the query string portion of the URL the search results showed up on.
Not sure how that holds up these days.