I arrange Google Analytics on my web site in 2010, and since then use it to trace web page views to my web site. I solely care about web page views, which I discover helpful to determine which pages get essentially the most site visitors. It’s attention-grabbing knowledge, and typically slightly helpful. However Google collects far more data than simply web page views, and it’s monitoring is extra intrusive than I would really like. However I had different issues I’d slightly spend to spend my time on, so doing something about it by no means made it excessive sufficient up my todo listing.
However final month I lastly did one thing, having come throughout some data that did I assumed did what I needed. Primarily I would like issues arrange in order that I don’t must trouble with a cookie banner as a result of I solely observe issues which might be trackable when somebody says “deny all”. Primarily based on some google documentation, I modified my google analytics fragment to:
As I perceive the documentation, this could flip off essentially the most problematic monitoring, however nonetheless ship a web page view occasion. I took a take a look at it the next day, and every part appeared to be okay, however now, a few weeks later, web page views reported by Google Analytics have dropped drastically. To not zero, however to close zero.
I’ve spent a little bit of time making an attempt to determine what’s taking place. I used google tag assistant and it signifies the web page view occasions are being despatched accurately. However that doesn’t clarify why I’m not seeing the web page views in my Google knowledge.
I’m undecided what to do subsequent. I don’t need to spend an excessive amount of time on this, in any case I’d slightly work on writing and enhancing. I did think about different providers to do the monitoring, but it surely appears we’re speaking about $100s a month – and it’s simply not value that a lot to me. There are open supply setups I might strive an configure on my server, however once more that’s effort I don’t actually need to go into. Possibly I simply dwell with out analytics knowledge.
