Server Logs as Analytics: GoAccess + AWStats Modern Setup
Server logs analytics means parsing the access log your web server already writes — one line per request — instead of running a script in the visitor’s browser.…
Server logs analytics means parsing the access log your web server already writes — one line per request — instead of running a script in the visitor’s browser.…
SaaS analytics privacy is decided by what you put inside an event, not by which vendor’s logo sits on your dashboard. A self-hosted tool fed raw email addresses…
Funnel analytics without cookies works — but only inside whatever identification window your tool gives you, and that window is shorter than most teams assume. A cookieless tool…
I ran Lighthouse five times each against eight identical pages — one with no tracking at all, seven with a different analytics script in the head. Every page…
Cross-device identity used to be a solved problem. Ad networks dropped a third-party cookie on every site you visited, stitched the cookie IDs into a graph, and decided…
Every six months a fresh wave of LinkedIn posts declares server-side tracking the only sane way to collect data. The implication is that everyone still firing tags from…
People type “how to check website traffic” into Google for two completely different reasons. Either they want to know how much traffic their own site is getting, or…
Most discussions about “first-party tracking” collapse two different things into one phrase. There’s first-party data, which describes whose servers a request hits. And there’s the cookieless posture, which…
Search for “ecommerce metrics to track” and you’ll find articles listing 30, 40, even 70 different KPIs. It’s overwhelming. And frankly, it’s counterproductive. Here’s the truth most analytics…
SaaS growth is won (or lost) in the spaces between touchpoints: the moments from ad click to trial signup, from first “aha” to the first invoice, from a…
Why Privacy-Friendly Analytics Matters More Than Ever Let’s get one thing straight: people hate being watched. You feel it too, don’t you? That uncanny sense when ads follow…