Add an analytics tracker to keep a check on the traffic of the website

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Add an analytics tracker to keep a check on the traffic of the website #12

Closed Jarmos-san closed 1 year ago

Jarmos-san commented 1 year ago

Feature details?

Having an analytics tracker installed helps develop the prospects of the website, so its necessary to have one setup properly. That said, following are some analytics which can be installed:

P.S: At some point in time, its advisable to self-host the analytics tracker for privacy & optimisation concerns.

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Jarmos-san commented 1 year ago

The current concern with adding an analytics tool for the website are as follows:

Google Analytics is very resource heavy & the site performance takes an unnecessary hit.
And Cloudflare Analytics too many false-positives from bot hits.

Hence, the best course of action right now is to self-host either Plausible or Umami on Oracle Cloud (or something similar).

Jarmos-san commented 1 year ago

UPDATE: Setting up a self-hosted analytics is more time-consuming than I imagined it would be. Hence, I'm temporarily setting up a Cloudflare Web Analytics instead & will look into a self-hosted option some other day.