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Discussion on: Quit Google Analytics, Self-hosted Gatsby Statistics with Ackee

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Ignacio Van Droogenbroeck ☁️

Hi, nice post. Have you seen differences in visits compared to analytics? I don't use Analytics in my blog, I used Matomo and now I trying Ackee to "collect" less data from my visitors but I see that Ackee reports more than double of visits. Have you some kind of behavior? Thanks.

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Alec Brunelle

Haven't tested against another analytics service but that is a good idea for a sanity check. Analytics are finicky by nature though, some browsers like Firefox and Brave block all scripts but let others pass through. Depending on the "reputation" of the script, a browser may block it while it lets another script through. These situations lead me to use analytics as more of a relative tool to answer questions like "how is this post doing versus this other post".