analytics - Grant Winney

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Mar 09, 2020

Replacing Google Analytics, respecting user privacy, and owning your data

If you just want simple stats about your blog or site (i.e. popular pages and referrals), you don't need Google Analytics - the data is already on your server! You just need a tool that can display it nicely for you, and there's a number of privacy-minded alternatives....

Experience gets you far, but good tools and services keep you moving in the right direction. Here are some of my favorites:

DigitalOcean is a versatile, affordable cloud provider. You can serve up a blog (like this one!), deploy a wiki, try out ansible, or do something much bigger. They host the annual Hacktoberfest too.

Cloudinary is an image and video management platform, which freed me from my dependency on YouTube to host videos on this site.

Backblaze offers an affordable, unlimited, set-and-forget backup service. They saved me from the click of death a couple years ago, and I've been a grateful customer ever since.