Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by account42 on Friday February 26, 2021 @04:17AM
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You definitely don't need client-side anaylitics to know if you content is being viewed. I don't know if Cloudflare Analytics is that but a simple view counter on the backend (ie a log analyzer) is enough for that. Or just search for your site to see if people link to it.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by Wowfunhappy on Friday February 26, 2021 @09:22AM
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> a simple view counter on the backend (ie a log analyzer) is enough for that.
I can't do that on Github Pages.
Cloudflare Analytics gives me a tad more information than raw page views—for instance, I can see what sites people came from. But there's zero individual user tracking.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by account42 on Monday March 01, 2021 @03:37AM
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> But there's zero individual user tracking.
Yes, individiual user tracking is creepy. Stop doing it.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by Sevii on Friday February 26, 2021 @10:18AM
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A log counter on the backend will report the 1000 bots that visited your site as 1000 page views. But that won't give you any information on how well your posts did.
Bots are the reason I switched back from a free backend db based solution to google analytics.
Re:Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast
by kevin_thibedeau on Thursday February 25, 2021 @12:37PM
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I used to have GA on my Github documentation. Then I realized how much of it was garbage referer spam that Google wasn't doing anything to combat.
I quickly realized the obvious—without any analytics, I had no idea whether or not I was just screaming into the ether. Even for a simple noncommercial site, it's discomforting!
I now have Cloudflare Analytics and I'm much more satisfied. I feel as though I'm respecting my users's privacy, while also getting a basic sense of traffic.