Personal Blog Analytics - Which Numbers Really Matter and Why Medium Analytics Sucks
Maintaining a personal blog is time well spent. You reinforce your knowledge, help others learn from your experience, and it also plays a big role in personal branding which deserves a post on its own.
So far I've blogged on Wordpress, Medium, a stat...
Justin Grimes
I'm just a guy with too many hobbies.
If you're on WordPress and value your users privacy, do not use Google Analytics.
Sure, webmasters get to take advantage of big brothers' trove of fingerprinted browsers and fancy metrics, but you're also diming out your users to Google and feeding a beast that's already obese.
Google benefits most when you put Google Analytics on your site. Now they can track your users. Webmasters getting analytics out of the deal is the only way Google can sign you up to spy on your traffic.
That's why I use the 100% self-hosted WPStatistics plugin on my WordPress.org blog. And it's considerably faster than Google analytics too, because you don't have to make your clients do an extra DNS query and download external tracking scripts from 3rd party (Google) servers.