cdn.simpleanalytics.io

Well done brother. :-) The more privacy-aware tools, the better! Something that would interest me, is a little explanation of https://github.com/simpleanalytics/cdn.simpleanalytics.io/bl.... You already have very brief comments at strategic points. If you would explain these one by one, I would learn a lot about optimizing for number of requests, skipping stuff to load, etc. Maybe a technical blog post at a later time when the dust settles?

I practice, you can copy the code to your server. You could subscribe to repo updates on https://github.com/simpleanalytics/cdn.simpleanalytics.io and update your code if the changes make sense to you.

Just a heads up, HN comments only use a (I think) small subset of Markdown for formatting, but your link will work as is without having to wrap it in [] and adding the (). https://github.com/simpleanalytics/cdn.simpleanalytics.io/bl... https://simpleanalytics.io/what-we-collect Anyway, cool project! I've always felt the same about using GA given I actually like to pretend I have some sort of privacy these days, and always have an adblocker on, so I hated setting it up for people. Definitely will be keeping an eye on this the next time someone asks me to setup GA.

Creator here. As a developer, I install analytics for clients, but I never feel comfortable installing Google Analytics because Google creates profiles for their visitors, and uses their information for apps (like AdWords). As we all know, big corporations unnecessarily track users without their consent. I want to change that. So I built Simple Analytics. To ensure that it's fast, secure, and stable, I built it entirely using languages that I'm very familiar with. The backend is plain Node.js without any framework, the database is PostgreSQL, and the frontend is written in plain JavaScript. I learned a lot while coding, like sending requests as JSON requires an extra (pre-flight) request, so in my script I use the "text/plain" content type, which does not require an extra request. The script is publicly available (https://github.com/simpl