Google Analytics – Jeroen Heijster

How and why I ditched Google Analytics

Post author:Jeroen Heijster
Post published:June 23, 2012
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Google Analytics is a great tool to see what users do on your site and how they interact with it. It is free to use and is very extensive so why did I stop using it?

Problem with Google Analytics

The main reason I stopped using Analytics is because it places a cookie which cannot be stopped without showing me how the site is used. This means that if I wanted to implement the cookie law directives, I would lose the complete picture in my report. Some users already complained about this and Google simply hasn’t listened yet.

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CloudFlare – Boost your site

Post author:Jeroen Heijster
Post published:June 1, 2012
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CloudFlare protects and accelerates any website online. Once your website is a part of the CloudFlare community, its web traffic is routed through our intelligent global network.

I’ve been using CloudFlare for some time now and I really like it. It is free to use with a paid plan for the more advanced options. I’ll try to explain why I use it.

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