| When I've seen GA used or recommended to people, it's because their use case is tracking the marketing performance of their website. Tackling the privacy focus for GA is great, but they're a good deal of products out there that already fill that niche, not to mention the requirements of the privacy crowd usually being a venture into itself. If you wanted to make it relatively competitive for marketing, the simplest addition would be adding labelling via regex for referrers. i.e. - Some users want to be able to group Baidu, Google, DuckDuckGo, into a single bucket for comparison. Some users want to break them down into common market segments by country.
"https://www.baidu.com/link?url=FyYbCZqj65Vc7A4XeSNrOcQCS2qFX... is from your live demo referrers, and makes it difficult to actually assess the amount of traffic from Baidu. Using a regex label means that users can break down traffic from Paid/Organic marketing fairly quickly, and start to build up dashboards they can use. If you ever extended it to allow multiple labels for each hit, could re-run the regex over past data, and could build reports off it, you'd easily have a benefit over GA that would start to wean the marketing crowd off it. |