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Analytics on the Open Social Web • RocheBit
I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about analytics on the open social web. I would love to hear how others approach this topic, and share my own perspective.
Various resources
If you are interested in game analytics one of the best things to do early on is to read up on what other people do. While this does not result in a plan for how to implement analytics in your game…
Open source Business Intelligence and Embedded Analytics
Metabase open source business intelligence and embedded analytics. Create and share dashboards. Dig deeper into your data with no-code tools for data visualization.
Lessons from building and growing an open source SaaS
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User Behavior Tracking - Techniques, Tools & Best Practices
User behavior tracking is the process of collecting and analyzing data on how users interact with your app or website.
Self-host analytics for better privacy and accuracy
Something that always annoyed me of the current state of technology is how easy and pervasive we let tracking become. Tens of connections to 3rd parties carrying Referer and Cookies just to load an article. (We give up our users to social media websites just to show a like button that looks worse anyway in a iframe than it would natively, wtf.) But I digress.
Premium Plugins now available on the Piwik Analytics Marketplace - Analytics Platform - Matomo
Ready to use in minutes, Matomo gives you:✔ Accurate privacy-first analytics ✔ Full data ownership ✔ GDPR compliance
Statcounter Global Stats - Browser, OS, Search Engine including Mobile Usage Share
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Lucas Kostka - Foundational knowledge is worth a hundred tools
Should you learn how to program your own mutilthreaded server before starting to set up your first Google Ads campaign? Surely no. Does understanding how the HTTP protocol and Session management work will help you become better at managing your digital campaigns? I am pretty sure that yes. Because learning about it will give you the foundational knowledge that makes understanding complex abstractions later on easier (like third-party cookies role in performance measurement, DSP, ...) Starting from the abstractions obstructs your vision of the reality, obfuscating the bare mechanisms at play underneath. It constrains your creativity to the limits of the tool.
Stack Overflow
Use Stack Overflow Insights and get information required to understand, reach, and attract developers.Improve tech hiring, recruiting, developer marketing, and and planning initiatives.
MotherDuck: Pricing - Get Started
Blazing fast analytics, ducking simple pricing. Plans that fit customer-facing analytics and internal data warehousing use cases.
How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop — Smashing Magazine
GDPR requires you to be more thoughtful about the sites and services you build, more transparent about the ways you collect and use data, more considerate of your users, and more thorough in your development and documentation processes. In this article, Heather Burns will explore what you, as a developer, need to know about the new data protection regime. At the end, you’ll understand how the challenges posed by the privacy overhaul will ultimately help to make you a better developer.
AI Analytics Platform for Your Whole Team
Agentic notebooks, conversational self-serve, and Context Studio for governed AI answers — all in a unified platform for your whole team.
Monitoring & Analyzing Error Pages (404s) Using Analytics
I recently wrote a post on the Google Analytics + page about monitoring error pages on websites. The post was well received and generated ...
@cozylittle.house has been advocating for something like this for a bit! I think it's tricky to get right but if we *do* it could be really awesome! There's an opportunity here to have *better* analytics and information shared than the web analytics status quo
Andrew Lisowski 💻
I’m still open to hitting an an xrpc endpoint so you can track the traffic 🙂
