There seems to be a few possible ways to do the tracking and I think it broadly falls into two categories: use JavaScript to send a request request a resource (image, CSS) using an HTML tag or a CSS property I talked before about the fact that requesting a resource wouldn’t send the details of…
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I’ve been thinking about not just HOW to track, but WHAT to track. And these are related. My tracking method will, to some extent, dictate what I can track. For example, using a simple pixel image or reference to a URL in HTML or CSS will not be able to send me the URL of…
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I’ve now got a fresh install of Laravel, which will be the framework I’ll try to build this on – it’s both the framework I’m most familiar with, and the one I’m trying to learn more about. I’m going to try to take an approach called “Test Driven Development” (TDD) – which I’m also trying…
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I’ve been trying to work out how best to do the tracking. There seem to be two options: Request a resource using CSS or an image Make a JS call The main disadvantage of the CSS/image approach is that it won’t be able to send a referrer so we won’t be able to see where…
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Today I was thinking about the new GDPR data protection regulations. I realised that I use Google Analytics a lot, and make use of hardly any of the features of it. And I have concerns about what the GDPR means for use of Google Analytics. So I had the idea of simpler, open-source, self-hosted, privacy-aware,…
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