[lukestevens]

Just wanted to say that is an exceptionally well-written launch post.

- Solid summary

- Novel solution (omg AIDA in a CRO tool!)

- Clear benefits spelled out vs the competition

- Relatable use cases

- Jumping off points to explore the rest of the product

The product of years spent thinking about the problem I guess! Good stuff :D

[rambambram]

I second Luke, very clear write up! However, I don't understand one thing: how are European visitors secretly tracked with Simple Analytics? I built my own statistics module for Hello Website. There's no tracking going around, so no cookie-bars for my user's visitors. I say statistics explicitly (instead of analytics), because I didn't add a conversion/goal/funnel-part. Even building some site statistics module for yourself gives you more accurate numbers then GA, that A/B-test went well. ;)

[tipiirai]

Just like Volument, Simple Analytics is a website tracker. It reads device information, like the URL and referrer data, and sends it back to servers for analytics, statistics, or similar non-essential stuff. You must inform the visitor if this device information is tracked as per local European laws that are listed on our data-privacy document:

https://volument.com/learn/data-privacy

Both trackers are absolutely GDPR compliant because the visitors are not identified and you can of course just ignore the banner for all visitors, just like Simple Analytics advices to do, but that's a legal risk. Probably very small, but still.

Note that this is what we've told by GDPR professionals and not me interpreting the law.

Thanks for the compliment!

[tipiirai]

Luke — this just made my day, Thank you! In fact, this eases a lot of the angst from all the sleepless nights fearing of not getting any recognition.