{"id":432,"date":"2020-08-30T20:06:03","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/?p=432"},"modified":"2020-08-30T20:06:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T20:06:05","slug":"analytical-power-and-respecting-visitors-privacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/30\/analytical-power-and-respecting-visitors-privacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Analytical power and respecting visitors&#8217; privacy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>Almost all websites use some sort of Traffic Analytics, Google Analytics is used by 54.7% of all websites, according to\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/w3techs.com\/technologies\/details\/ta-googleanalytics\" target=\"_blank\">w3techs<\/a>.<br>Using an external analytics service to collect and parse website\u2019s visitors data is the simplest and fastest way, however, it comes with a price since the website owner has no control of the scope of data collected, and how it is processed.<\/p><p>Is the price too high?<\/p><p><strong>The direct price on the website is:<\/strong><br><strong>Performance:<\/strong>\u00a0Loading the Google Analytics script directly impacts the website performance.<br><strong>Legal:<\/strong>\u00a0Google Analytics is using tracking cookies and requires consent popups, affecting the website&#8217;s first impression and natural navigational flow.<br><strong>Ethical:<\/strong>\u00a0Compromising my website\u2019s visitors privacy in order to maintain analytical power is plain wrong.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Bablab is a great example: the traffic analytics solution is non-intrusive, not using cookies. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog\/analytical-power-and-privacy\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog\/analytical-power-and-privacy\">https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog\/analytical-power-and-privacy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in the Bablog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog\">https:\/\/www.bablab.com\/blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost all websites use some sort of Traffic Analytics, Google Analytics is used by 54.7% of all websites, according to\u00a0w3techs.Using an external analytics service to collect and parse website\u2019s visitors data is the simplest and fastest way, however, it comes with a price since the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/todepoint.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}