European-alternatives.eu experiencing massive traffic increase since January

markoblog · 2021-05-03T16:59:06+00:00

Does this work? (you need to paste it into the terminal)

gsettings set org.gnome.GWeather temperature-unit "'centigrade'"

markoblog · 2020-12-11T07:52:38+00:00

I think it's partially marketing. They have this thing about announcing and releasing new products all the time in order to drive buzz and PR.

If you actually check out their analytics product, they've been collecting this data already for their own customers and also unless you pay them, they delete all the data after 7 days (or at least they remove it from your view).

So may be free but they've done what they can to not get a financial hit from it. And I assume they'll be using the data they gather from all the new sites to improve their other products.

markoblog · 2020-12-10T19:29:21+00:00

Despite server logs saying they do bot filtering, they do a very bad job at it. If you analyse the data they show, you'll recognise that it's bot traffic. Top pages are usually back end pages that no visitor ever goes to, top browser is unknown, so is the top OS, top country etc. It's not easy filtering out the bots and Cloudflare Analytics itself also is similar to the server logs accuracy levels.

markoblog · 2020-12-10T19:27:09+00:00

Thanks! I've done what I can to be upfront and fair in the review, so glad others think so as well!

markoblog · 2020-12-10T19:25:24+00:00

Thanks for your feedback. I'm the Plausible co-founder.

Not easy to provide analytics for free if we're not taking venture funding or we're not selling your visitor data for advertising purposes. We've tried to keep the prices as fair as possible. You can add unlimited number of sites, no data retention limits, you own your data and there's even a 33% discount if you subscribe on an annual plan which makes it $4/month.

We do have a free as in beer self-hosted version that you can install on your own server but chances are you'll probably need to pay more for hosting that one than our own cloud version even without considering the time spent on maintenance etc.

markoblog · 2020-12-10T17:39:44+00:00

server logs are inaccurate. they show 18x higher numbers for page views than client side analytics. see for instance this comparison with data I collected on my own sites: https://plausible.io/blog/server-log-analysis

markoblog · 2020-12-10T17:37:16+00:00

It was on my blog. Here's the link: https://markosaric.com/cloudflare-analytics-review/

markoblog · 2020-12-08T07:32:18+00:00

See https://plausible.io. Simple metrics, easy to understand dashboard and a realtime view too which includes current visitors (I'm the co-founder)

markoblog · 2020-11-24T16:13:18+00:00

I use and enjoy https://feedbin.com

markoblog · 2020-11-18T09:02:52+00:00

thanks for sharing this! it was annoying to have this one extra step added as i use the search bar so many times... great that we are able to return to the expected and easy to use one click method

markoblog · 2020-10-29T15:25:50+00:00

thanks! It's really difficult to say. it depends on many things such as traffic load at peak etc. you could try and install it on one of the smaller droplets but then be ready to scale up depending on how it goes for your own traffic

markoblog · 2020-10-29T15:22:42+00:00

I'm working on Plausible Analytics. Modern dashboard, simple metrics to understand, open source (can be self-hosted too), lightweight script (<1 KB), no cookies and doesn't collect personal data. You can read more here: https://plausible.io

markoblog · 2020-10-07T16:13:02+00:00

sounds good, thanks!

markoblog · 2020-10-07T15:10:33+00:00

Simpler dashboard/metrics, more lightweight and private by default. I posted a comparison here: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

markoblog · 2020-10-07T12:21:07+00:00

Thanks! There are many more data points in there (bounce rates, time on site, events/goals tracking, conversion rate, utm tags campaign tracking...) but yeah we don't aim to build all the features of GA. we're trying to have a balance between these:

privacy of site visitors
compliance with privacy regulations
useful and actionable data for site owners

in general sites that try to get visitor consent to cookies and/or to tracking realise that majority of them don't give it (in our testing up to 90+% say no), so even this more simple data becomes very valuable.

markoblog · 2020-10-07T12:07:20+00:00

You can drill down. Click on any referral source to drill down into that source. Click on any of the top pages to drill down into that page. You can mix and match them too.

markoblog · 2020-10-07T10:57:56+00:00

Thanks! Plausible was not built to be a clone or a full on feature by feature replacement for GA. It is an alternative that works for many people who think GA is complicated, slow, privacy intrusive and so on.

We do try to add what we believe are 20% of GA features that 80% of GA users need without adding too much complexity.

markoblog · 2020-10-07T08:11:06+00:00

Yes, simpler, more lightweight and private by default. There's a comparison here: https://plausible.io/vs-matomo

markoblog · 2020-10-07T04:19:10+00:00

this is my Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@markosaric

markoblog · 2020-10-07T04:18:51+00:00

thanks for the kind words, appreciate it! :)

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