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Re:The quick website launch checklist by icebraining on Sunday August 14, 2011 @12:01PM (#2883866)
I know the text says "... or equivalent software," but is there any great advantage between using Google Analytics or a hosted component on your own server? I feel it's impolite to subject your users to be tracked by Google and other huge companies just because they visited your website. Is there at least any tracking service that respects Mozilla's DNT[1]?

[1]: http://dnt.mozilla.org/

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Re:The quick website launch checklist by jbrkr on Sunday August 14, 2011 @05:20PM (#2884476)
Piwik [1] is a great alternative to Google Analytics. It is free, open source software, and it is typically self-hosted.

While I do not think it supports Do-Not-Track at this time, Piwik does have configuration options to respect emerging laws on data protection and user privacy.

[1] http://piwik.org/blog/2011/03/piwik-can-be-used-in-complianc...

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Re:The quick website launch checklist by Silhouette on Sunday August 14, 2011 @02:38PM (#2884142)
> I feel it's impolite to subject your users to be tracked by Google and other huge companies just because they visited your website.

It's also probably illegal in Europe now, though at least in the UK the authorities have declared a one year moratorium on taking action over it because the new privacy rules on cookies etc. are practically unworkable even if well-intentioned.

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Re:The quick website launch checklist by mtogo on Sunday August 14, 2011 @04:07PM (#2884322)
Analytics software on your server has the advantage of tracking images, css, js, and other non-html-page files, and still works when your users use addons like Noscript, Adblock, or Ghostery.
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