[HN Gopher] Building my own web analytics tool ___________________________________________________________________ Building my own web analytics tool Author : mthwsjc_ Score : 33 points Date : 2021-06-30 10:24 UTC (1 days ago) (HTM) web link (johnmathews.eu) (TXT) w3m dump (johnmathews.eu) | bruce343434 wrote: | It's not loading... I can only assume your server is hardly | keeping up with the influx of traffic :D | sparkling wrote: | If you are looking for something that is a bit more privacy | friendly and not a feature overkill, check out Plausible.io (not | affiliated, just a happy customer). There is also a self-hosted | option. | cdstyh wrote: | How does this compare to Momato | mmerlin wrote: | I assume you are referring to Matomo the open source | alternative to google analytics | | https://matomo.org/ | CallMeMarc wrote: | More of a marketing comparison than a technical one, but here | you go: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo | | My main takeaways and why I personally use Plausible are | their script is lightweight, it uses no cookies and therefore | is by default GDPR compliant and it respects my visitor's | privacy by default. Also a big point, Matomo is way more | complex than Plausible and personally overkill for all of my | use cases. | iruoy wrote: | So with his own analytics, Cloudflare's server-side analytics, | Cloudflare's Analytics script and Google Analytics he's got 4 | different measurements now. And according to his follow-up | article they all return different results. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-07-01 23:01 UTC)