Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
by rraval on Thursday December 23, 2021 @03:45PM
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I too wanted to preserve privacy and avoid a cookie banner for my blog. I ended up rolling a privacy preserving proxy via Cloudflare workers that forwards `pageview` events to Google Analytics. It's a single HTML tag to drop in and preserves the navigation and user flow reports on the GA side.
See https://github.com/rraval/zeroindexed/tree/master/packages/t...
The blog explains expanded motivation: https://zeroindexed.com/privacy
Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
by shafyy on Thursday December 23, 2021 @01:37PM
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Cool! Your website looks great. I also live in Berlin! Give Fugu a spin if you want to track conversion funnels (coming soon) and event properties.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
by mousetree on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:46PM
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Wow, amazing site! Wish I knew about it earlier!
Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
by rPlayer6554 on Thursday December 23, 2021 @02:24PM
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Wow, this is a fantastic site. I definitely plan on visiting Berlin at some point and I'll use it.
Re:Ask HN: Best alternatives to Google Analytics in 2021?
by philliphaydon on Thursday December 23, 2021 @07:17PM
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I love how clean clear and concise this site is! More sites should be like this! Great work!
It's good, but it doesn't replace Google Analytics at all. It tracks visits and events, but not navigation and user flow. It's severely lacking in detail compared to Analytics. It's a compromise, not a drop-in replacement.
However, it's excellent as a simple tracker for average website admins. I'm very happy with it. The maintainers have been nothing short of stellar with their support and transparency.