New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Do you use analytics on your personal blog/site? Why?
Ask HN: Do you use analytics on your personal blog/site? Why?
3 by ilmiont | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've been thinking for a while about relaunching a personal site (abandoned in 2017, offline since 2018) and would like to go JavaScript-less. Previous personal sites have always included some kind of analytics/view counting system and I'd originally intended to do so on the new site. Yet thinking about it... I really don't know why I care how many people read an article, or whether that data is of any use to me. (It really would be only view counts that I'd collect.) Which got we wondering... do you collect analytics (whether full-blown GA or just a per-page view count log), and what real value does that data provide to you? I've decided against it for my new site but am now analysing (ahem) why I wanted it in the past, and if there's anything I'm missing...
3 by ilmiont | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I've been thinking for a while about relaunching a personal site (abandoned in 2017, offline since 2018) and would like to go JavaScript-less. Previous personal sites have always included some kind of analytics/view counting system and I'd originally intended to do so on the new site. Yet thinking about it... I really don't know why I care how many people read an article, or whether that data is of any use to me. (It really would be only view counts that I'd collect.) Which got we wondering... do you collect analytics (whether full-blown GA or just a per-page view count log), and what real value does that data provide to you? I've decided against it for my new site but am now analysing (ahem) why I wanted it in the past, and if there's anything I'm missing...
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