No Cookie for You

Re:No Cookie for You by coldpie on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:54PM (#25458124)

Or, don't do any tracking. I'm convinced that 99% of all analytics is discarded without ever being reviewed, analyzed, or acted upon.

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Re:No Cookie for You by chipotle_coyote on Thursday December 17, 2020 @01:07PM (#25458308)

This is probably correct.

On my personal web sites I'm using GoAccess, which is basically a new spin on a very old idea -- just analyzing the server's web logs.

https://goaccess.io

That's not as accurate as throwing around cookies and JavaScript, but I rarely check the log pages anyway, and when I do I'm less interested in raw numbers than I am in the relative performance of various pages. (And that's mostly just idle curiosity, e.g., are there some old articles that keep getting steady traffic from somewhere?)

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Re:No Cookie for You by scrollaway on Thursday December 17, 2020 @12:58PM (#25458160)

Much like logging though, it's the 1 percent that isn't discarded that's important.

I agree with you by the way, but ...

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