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# [Personal Blog Analytics - Which Numbers Really Matter and Why Medium Analytics Sucks](https://mmaksimovic.dev/personal-blog-analytics-which-numbers-really-matter-and-why-medium-analytics-sucks?utm_source=hashnode&utm_medium=feed)

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...

May 1, 2019 · mmaksimovic.dev  
Updated May 15, 2019  
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## Written by

[Milica Maksimović](https://hashnode.com/@mmaksimovic)

@mmaksimovic · Novi Sad

  
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founder Literally.dev, ex-Growth @wasp, former Community Manager @Hashnode

I am a marketer in love with tech and building communities around products. My passion is understanding how things work, what people think, and how organizations function.

## Responses 1

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[Justin Grimes](https://hashnode.com/@zelon88)

[May 1, 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/personal-blog-analytics-which-numbers-really-matter-and-why-medium-analytics-sucks/5cc9eb022f20c66864225011/comment/5cca01f12f20c6686422510a)

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.

[Milica Maksimović](https://hashnode.com/@mmaksimovic)

[May 1, 2019](https://hashnode.com/posts/personal-blog-analytics-which-numbers-really-matter-and-why-medium-analytics-sucks/5cc9eb022f20c66864225011/comment/5cca01f12f20c6686422510a#reply-5cca04252f20c66864225185)

Thanks for your comment [Justin Grimes](https://hashnode.com/@zelon88)! I'm also concerned about online privacy and I do get your point. Realistically speaking, any analytics is going to feed some beasts, whether it's Wordpress, GA, or someone else. I do use GA, and I'm happy that the data is anonymous, so I can't map the people to their actions.

Also, if people don't want to leave their data, they can use any adblocker or Brave browser.

All I want is to make sure that people actually read posts and that I'm reaching out to people who actually might benefit from them. No evil intentions at all.