TinyAnalytics
Web and SaaS
web analytics
SHOW HN2017
47points
17comments
#837of 2,242 in 2017
Top 38%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
0 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score -0.21.
Idea: 0 for, 3 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast daily overview of many sites without clicking through menus
From 2 comments
In Google Analytics, I would have to: * click on "Websites" (top left of http://gget.it/5e8tyn6g/2.jpg) * choose the right website in the list (http://gget.it/8jptjvso/3.jpg) *…
josephernest on HNThis is the reason, at least for me: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13674984 15 or 30 seconds per day, instead of several minutes + twenty clicks in a row on UI elements…
josephernest on HN
Objections
Only counts unique visitors and referrers, too basic for monetised sites
From 1 comment
I think it's a nice idea and probably fits the use case of some small blogs, but for anything that's more serious you'd want much more than just unique visitors and referrers. If…
arielm on HN
Server-side logging misses blocked or script-based metrics
From 2 comments
I think a big part of modern analytics is a Javascript component that runs in the browser. Javascript can help you tell crawlers from user agents and repeat clients from large…
Xeoncross on HN> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back. I can think of some reasons from the top of my head: * It works…
JD557 on HN
Requests
Add a JavaScript tracker
From 1 comment
This raw TinyAnalytics log is just temporary, and is digested every day into a summary and then removed. No need to go for a more complex DB than that I think. -- About the…
josephernest on HN
Rewrite the Python worker in PHP
From 1 comment
I started in Python for the "worker process" because I'm much faster at writing Python code, for data parsing, digesting, etc. It's planned to rewrite this file into PHP to have…
josephernest on HN
Questions
Why parse own logs instead of server logs
From 1 comment
More self-hosted analytics options are nice to see! Why did you choose to write your own log-file instead of parsing server logs (which would work without my site being PHP,…
detaro on HN
Does it use JavaScript tracking
From 1 comment
Does this use javascript tracking as well?
bazpo on HN
Alternatives named
Piwik
From 1 comment
I started this project because I tried both Piwik and OpenWebAnalytics, and I was a bit unhappy with them (see http://josephbasquin.fr/aboutanalytics). Own-log because it just…
josephernest on HN
Open Web Analytics
From 1 comment
I started this project because I tried both Piwik and OpenWebAnalytics, and I was a bit unhappy with them (see http://josephbasquin.fr/aboutanalytics). Own-log because it just…
josephernest on HN
Google Analytics
From 1 comment
Well, fair enough, but what is stopping you from just not doing the indepth analysis when using something like google analytics? I mean the simple stuff is right there, easily…
quakenul on HN
Countly
From 1 comment
Curious to know if you have tried out Countly (http://github.com/countly/countly-server) ? If so, what do you think?
gorkemcetin on HN