[HN Gopher] Simple and Free Web Analytics
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       Simple and Free Web Analytics
        
       Author : ihucos
       Score  : 36 points
       Date   : 2021-03-07 20:42 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (counter.dev)
 (TXT) w3m dump (counter.dev)
        
       | pi_el_59 wrote:
       | I have little experience in web analytics, but I just tried it
       | out and it was so much simpler to setup than Google analytics!
       | Great design as well.
        
       | rafaelturk wrote:
       | This looks amazing. Kudos for the project. Extra points for using
       | Redis as main DB.
        
         | ihucos wrote:
         | Thanks! That is really cool to hear.
        
       | kowlo wrote:
       | Seen many of these on HN recently - decision paralysis
        
         | ihucos wrote:
         | That's why with counter you can get started in like 10 seconds.
         | And permanently delete your data via the GUI if you don't like
         | it :-)
        
           | Techonomicon wrote:
           | Can't speak for the OC, but I'd say decision paralysis for
           | these sorts of utilities is more about "will I regret having
           | used this after a year vs something else" and less about "can
           | I dump this after trying it for a week".
           | 
           | Competition is great, but people are people and want to know
           | they're making a good longer term decision, which isn't
           | always clear in the short term.
           | 
           | This is just something you can't help with outside of provide
           | information, especially since use cases and desires of users
           | of these services change over time.
        
       | amnotelonmusk wrote:
       | How does it compare to plausible? Using them atm
        
         | ihucos wrote:
         | At the first sight they really look quite similar. Counter does
         | not use a relational database and is highly optimized to serve
         | users for free. If you want more details and really dig into
         | the data plausible could be a better fit. If you value a free
         | product and don't need too much details or actually even value
         | less data collection then I would say go with counter.
        
           | Techonomicon wrote:
           | If you're collecting data, you generally want a) as much as
           | you can get and b) be able to make use of it any way you
           | want.
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           | Yes users of a privacy centric analytics tool are opting into
           | less information, though the inability to do more may be a
           | large downside to counter (if it is the case that it has less
           | data collection capabilities vs plausible at this time). You
           | never know what data you will need later, better to collect
           | however much you're able to in a fashion you can do anything
           | you need to with it.
        
       | dorianmariefr wrote:
       | I use https://github.com/ankane/ahoy and quite happy with it
        
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