I still don’t understand why small website owners don’t just use their server logs.
They can not be defeated by privacy focused browsers or by JavaScript being inactive.
The only real problem with them is that they (typically) requires access to CPanel (although you can make the stats ‘public’) and that the interfaces are ancient and typically not mobile-friendly. Thinking of AWStats in particular but the rest seem similar.
Some cheaper hosts also kill your old stats (and logs) after a year or so, so you lose cool 5-year growth stats.
I mean, we LITERALLY, already have the data we need. Sitting right there. On our own servers. But we don’t look at it or have good (easy) tools, so we sling third-party JavaScript onto all our webpages and consult someone else.
Something has gone backwards (again) on the internet.
They can not be defeated by privacy focused browsers or by JavaScript being inactive.
The only real problem with them is that they (typically) requires access to CPanel (although you can make the stats ‘public’) and that the interfaces are ancient and typically not mobile-friendly. Thinking of AWStats in particular but the rest seem similar.
Some cheaper hosts also kill your old stats (and logs) after a year or so, so you lose cool 5-year growth stats.
I mean, we LITERALLY, already have the data we need. Sitting right there. On our own servers. But we don’t look at it or have good (easy) tools, so we sling third-party JavaScript onto all our webpages and consult someone else.
Something has gone backwards (again) on the internet.