Principles Behind Effective Web Analytics and How to Avoid Wasting Your Time

Out of curiosity, is anyone aware of a NodeJS analytics package that doesn't need to call out to somebody else's server?

Just for basic site visit and device type tracking?

Or will I actually have to spend like two hours to hack one together? :\

There are a few simple gotchas to avoid when setting up analytics. The first one that comes to my mind is to separate customers from employees - ignore access to the site from the corporate IP address(es). Does anyone else have any additional recommendations that are best applied from the get-go?

This is only about website analytics and not nearly as general as the title suggests.

So, this article has a social bar covering the text on the left on my chrome browser and popped up a 'subscribe' window.

The bar was covering text I was trying to read, especially since I do heavy analytics at a major financial institution on a daily basis.

Ended up leaving me disappointed.

Oh this is about Google analytics. I wish you people could pick a unique term for your discipline. Analytics is older than Google.