Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
by anderspitman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @11:24AM
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19USD/mo for 3 sites seems pretty steep, and I have 0 interest in managing my own PHP service. Is there anything cheaper in this space?
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Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
by projproj on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:53PM
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Just a shot in the dark, but if you use Cloudflare already, their stats include view counts. It's also probably more accurate than relying on JS tracking tools because they can count the actual requests to your site.
Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
by anderspitman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:02PM
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My CloudFlare stats show multiple times as many hits as GA. I'm guessing it's not handling bots/spiders or something.
Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
by TomGullen on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @02:41PM
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We put this down to people with JavaScript disabled or ad blockers. CF does filter bot traffic but will capture all hits as it’s tracking through network requests. For us it’s around a 35% increase in what GA reports.
Re:Stop donating your customers' data to Google Analytics
by anderspitman on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @03:35PM
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For me CF is showing 3x GA unique visitors. Though that's almost all HN traffic, so I suppose it's certainly possible that 2/3 HN users have blockers.