It says "Privacy respected" but there are Google Ads and Analytics included.
There's plenty of alternatives to google analytics though. This sort of basic breakdown could be done with goaccess (or an awk one-liner); plausible, matomo or simple analytics would be decent options that cover most reasonable requirements.
I have a suggestion which has always served me well: Ask. Or don’t even ask, users will tell you what they want anyway. Analytics will only give you skewed information, as you are unable to distinguish the popularity of a feature is due to its usefulness, its prominence, or a general lack of clarity.
Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users What will get more people talking to you, a 10% speed up split among many small interactions, or a visual glitch that doesn't affect usability but it's front and center?
And analytics won’t tell you that, so I don’t see your point.
> Non visible parts of aproject tend to get neglected a lot more if you just ask your users
Do they? Perhaps if you keep relying on analytics, they do. In my experience, users will just tell you anyway. And some of them will be better at feedback than others. Treasure those.
Also, and this is another topic, why don’t you use periods in your sentences? Your comment was unnecessarily hard to parse.
A good example is time tracking, people are notoriously bad at this, ignoring non events that consume time and over assigning time to task that demand attention
On the other topic, no real reason. I just suck at prose; I'll take the comment in consideration to improve that. That comment in general is just poorly written all around, I'd love to edit it, but the time window has passed
It would be great if you could use a self-hosted analytics platform instead! :)
And I would strongly advise not to develop based on anonymous analytics, users might tell you different desires if you ask them and use completely different workflows if added. Optimizing for web analytis metrics has ruined many projects.
That's an important distinction to make especially for a browser based app. It's also a very low bar IMO, but one that many other companies aren't clearing anymore, like MS, Adobe, and others.