For my link archive: responses to Iris Classon asking for “least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website?”
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/03/12
This sparked some great responses [Wayback/Archive] Iris Classon on Twitter: “What’s the least privacy invading way to track some metrics regarding traffic to my website? Basic stuff, not length of stay, color of underwear or body count.”, for instance:
- [Wayback/Archive] Kevin McDonnell MVP cohost @greyhatbeard 💕 on Twitter: “@marypcbuk @IrisClasson Clarity is great and would definitely recommend (came here to say that) – …. They’re very clear on how the data is stored so you can make your own decisions on it.”
- [Wayback/Archive] Microsoft Clarity – Free Heatmaps & Session Recordings
See what your users want—with Clarity
Clarity is a free, easy-to-use tool that captures how real people actually use your site. Setup is easy and you’ll start getting data in minutes.
- DPR & CCPA ready
- No sampling
- Built on open source
- [Wayback/Archive] Microsoft Clarity – Free Heatmaps & Session Recordings
- [Wayback/Archive] Rob Bos on Twitter: “@IrisClasson @PlausibleHQ ! I use it myself because of this as well as: built for privacy and hosted in the EU (or host it yourself, anywhere you want 😉). You can even share your stats online: … the data in here is the amount of info they track (+campaigns possible)”
- [Wayback/Archive] Plausible · devopsjournal.io
- [Wayback/Archive] Plausible Analytics (@PlausibleHQ) / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] Plausible Analytics | Simple, privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative
Simple and privacy-friendlyGoogle Analytics alternative
Plausible is lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, powered by European-owned cloud infrastructure 🇪🇺
- [Wayback/Archive] Sebas on Twitter: “@IrisClasson I’ll throw this in: … They also have a community license/self-hosting option. But they do track color of underwear 😜”
- [Wayback/Archive] Matomo Analytics – The Google Analytics alternative that protects your data
Take back control with Matomo – a powerful web analytics platform that gives you 100% data ownership.
- [Wayback/Archive] Matomo Analytics – The Google Analytics alternative that protects your data
- [Wayback/Archive] Bartek on Twitter: “@IrisClasson I’m using @SimpleAnalytic and really happy with it.” / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] Bartek on Twitter: “@IrisClasson @SimpleAnalytic Here’s what you can expect from it: …”
- [Wayback/Archive] Simple Analytics on Twitter: “@IrisClasson We are still waiting on the JavaScript API for underwear. Until then, we only collect the minimal. … Thanks for your kind words @brtkdotse”
- [Wayback/Archive] Gavin Campbell on Twitter: “@IrisClasson Your site is hugo in an Azure Storage Account?”
- [Wayback/Archive] Junction Apps on Twitter: “@IrisClasson I’ve been liking … @goaccess”
- [Wayback/Archive] GoAccess (@goaccess) / Twitter
- [Wayback/Archive] GoAccess – Visual Web Log Analyzer
GoAccess is an open source real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.It provides fast and valuable HTTP statistics for system administrators that require a visual server report on the fly.
I chimed in a tiny joke as well with [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “@IrisClasson One body per request, right? (; (Parse the logs yourself is the least invasive, having it parsed is more invasive; … is a good start to get some ideas from)”
–jeroen
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