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Comment by ktamura | Hacker News Reader

Some of the juxtapositions/language are bizarre.

>2. Of the YC companies that use hosting providers, 55% use AWS, 13% use Cloudflare and 6% use Rackspace.

Comparing Cloudflare and AWS? Where's GCP or Azure?

>3. Of the YC companies that use a CDN, 68% use Amazon CloudFront, 7% use Cloudflare and 5% use Fastly.

Okay, so there's a separate section for CDN...

>8. Only 22% of YC sites use a third party CMS. Of those, 83% use WordPress.

"3rd party" CMS? As opposed to...a custom made web app?

>11. In terms of installs, the most common Analytics providers are Google Analytics (451), Google Universal Analytics (314), Mixpanel (183) and Optimizely (129).

I thought Google Universal Analytics was an updated version of Google Analytics.

That said, this kind of market research is incredibly valuable.

Hey, so i'll attempt to clear the air a bit. Didn't think this would trend like it did..

Cloudflare - chalk this up as a mistake. I have a marketing background, so not too well versed in the infrastructure space. I'll ask Macro to make an edit for me :)

"As opposed to...a custom made web app?" - correct.

Google Analytics vs Universal Analytics - Correct, Universal is an update, but many still use GA standard. The GA # (451) is all encompassing, the GUA # (314) is the subset of GA users that use the update.

Granted, there is much room for improvement in both the information given and the semantics behind it, but I'm glad you enjoyed it. Thought it would be interesting for people to see since a lot of this stuff usually operates behind the black curtain.

Thanks for the writeup! I enjoyed reading it and comparing with some of our vendor/stack choices.

> Some of the juxtapositions/language are bizarre.

The author is non-technical, but I agree it's confusing.

> I thought Google Universal Analytics was an updated version of Google Analytics.

I wonder if they are looking at multiple sources for a company, for example, the blog, marketing site, dev site, web app, etc.

Neither am I =) It's a matter of doing fact-checking/analysis.

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