Using Analytics on My Website

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Plausible.io

> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake. GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/ Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing. That said, I'd still say that the analytics solutions out there, especially self-hostable ones like Matomo, are quite nice and can have both UIs that are very easy to interact with for the average person (e.g. Filtering data by date range, or by page/view that was interacted with), as well as have a plethora of different datasets: https://matomo.org/features/ I think it can be useful to have a look at what sorts of devices are mostly being used to interact with your site, what operating systems and browsers are in use, how people navigate through the site, where do they enter the site from and how they find it, what the front end performance is like, or even how your e-commerce site is doing, at a glance, in addition to seeing how this changes over time. People have also said good things about Plausible Analytics as well: https://plausible.io/.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 187 social mentions

2

GoAccess

> Just use GoAcces for fuck's sake. GoAccess seems pretty cool and is probably a good task for the job, when you need something simple, thanks for recommending it: https://goaccess.io/ Even if you have analytics of some sort already in place, I think it'd probably still be a nice idea to run GoAccess on your server, behind some additional auth, so you can check up on how the web servers are performing. That said, I'd still say that the analytics solutions out there, especially self-hostable ones like Matomo, are quite nice and can have both UIs that are very easy to interact with for the average person (e.g. Filtering data by date range, or by page/view that was interacted with), as well as have a plethora of different datasets: https://matomo.org/features/ I think it can be useful to have a look at what sorts of devices are mostly being used to interact with your site, what operating systems and browsers are in use, how people navigate through the site, where do they enter the site from and how they find it, what the front end performance is like, or even how your e-commerce site is doing, at a glance, in addition to seeing how this changes over time. People have also said good things about Plausible Analytics as well: https://plausible.io/.

#Analytics #Web Analytics #Monitoring Tools 52 social mentions

3

umami

If you already use Posthog, Web Analytics has been in Public Beta for quite some time.[1] If I remember correctly, CloudFlare Analytics does not need you to register your domain with them. I personally feel keeping domain registration coupled with your DNS provider is not a good idea. Plausible[2] has an Open Source self-hostable version but is not so updated in sync with their SaaS version. Umami[3] is another simple, clean one. And, of course, as many have suggested, Matomo is the other well-established one. If you want to avoid maintaining a hosting routine, a lot do the hosting out of the box these days. PikaPods[4] was good when I tried and played around for a while. 1. https://posthog.com/docs/web-analytics 3. https://umami.is 4. https://www.pikapods.com.

#Web Analytics #Analytics #Privacy 69 social mentions

4

Google Search Console

This is the way. However, if you do want to view some stats about your site, you can get them by checking the domain on Google Search console [0]. [0]: https://search.google.com/search-console/about.

#SEO Tools #SEO #Online Services 95 social mentions

5

Pirsch Analytics

I was also looking for server-side analytics, created my own, and now it's a product! The idea is that tracking can be done from both, a JS snippet (for easy integration) and an API. Both rely on fingerprinting and almost provide the same set of features. The API just lacks screen resolution. The method is GDPR (and CCPA and whatnot) compliant<i>. Original article: https://marvinblum.de/blog/server-side-tracking-without-cookies-in-go-OxdzmGZ1Bl Product: https://pirsch.io </i> before this comes up again: Yes, we checked professionally with an external DPO and it was checked by some companies you've probably heard of externally.

#Analytics #Open Source #Privacy 25 social mentions