[zoidb]

I suggest using analytics that you can self-host, like https://www.goatcounter.com/ and renting a cheap vm to run it on along with your blog. It is way better, you have more control and you can be sure that javascript tracking is working for 100% of people using the site since you have full control over it not getting blocked by adblockers.

[101008]

I use Google Analytics (I know, I know, it's bad, sorry for that, but I tried Matomo and it didn't work for me). I noticed in recent years the amount of visitors got down by a lot. Would it be possible to know that the reason is because the users are blocking Analytics JS?

To compare, my website gets around 600 visitors per day according to Analytics, while Cloudflare says something around 4k. Who should I trust?

Also, if Cloudflare would add visitors per page, I would completely remove Analytics. I only want to know visitors per day, country, and the most visited webpages. That's more than enough.

[XCSme]

Could you share why you didn't like Matomo? I am building UXWizz, a Matomo alternative, that is focused only on self-hosting. What parts of Matomo made you stop using it?

[zoidb]

Yeah I suspect a lot of that has to do with ad blocking and the problem with using log based analytics is filtering out bot traffic

[azan-n]

I agree. With PostHog, I know that my ad-blocker will blocks the URL rendering the service useless, but I set up a reverse proxy using Cloudflare Workers to prevent ad-blockers from blocking it.

[joshyi]

JS analytics are increasingly susceptible to inaccuracies as data manipulation methods multiply, leading to the production of unreliable events from JavaScript endpoints. Staying abreast of industry developments highlights a rising trend of blockers leveraging AI-driven detection, reducing the significance of JavaScript analytics in such situations.