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by jcroll 2004 days ago
How do you do site analytics?
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The same without tracking users with personally identifiable information. You know how many people clicked on which button, but you don't know that the user 05475524789 who clicked on the button lives in South Europe, has HIV, and is interested in video games and vacuum cleaners.
Your webservers provide all the information you need via a logging mechanism.