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by thih9 968 days ago
What if my hashing function has high likelihood of collisions?
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Then you cannot trust the analytics
You can estimate the actual numbers based on the collision rate.

Analytics is not about absolute accuracy, it's about measuring differences; things like which pages are most popular, did traffic grow when you ran a PR campaign etc.

Do you trust analytics that doesn’t use JS? Or relies on mobile users to scroll the page before counting a hit?

It’s all a heuristic and even with high collision hashing, analytics would provide some additional insight.