[muzmath]

You criticize people for _premature optimization_ while in the same breath advocating rolling your own, shitting implementation for page views? Right...

[angersock]

Incorrect--remember, there is no way of guaranteeing privacy of users *if you outsource analytics for your page.

You're missing the point of why "rolling your own shitting [sic] implementation" is worth it: it's not the speed, it's the privacy.