How someone temporarily took over my subdomain
A developer recounts how a forgotten DNS record allowed someone to hijack a subdomain via an abandoned S3 bucket, discovered only through Google Analytics alerts.
A developer recounts how a forgotten DNS record allowed someone to hijack a subdomain via an abandoned S3 bucket, discovered only through Google Analytics alerts.
Discusses the negative impact of analytics tracking scripts on website performance, privacy, and environmental sustainability, suggesting alternatives.
Exploring the privacy concerns of Google Analytics and why the author switched to the privacy-focused alternative, Plausible Analytics.
A guide to measuring daily Core Web Vitals using Google Analytics and external tools, bypassing the standard 28-day reporting window.
Explores Google Analytics proxying, a technique to bypass ad-blockers for more accurate tracking, and discusses its ethical implications.
Article critiques Google Analytics' privacy and performance costs, and explores ethical, self-hosted alternatives for website tracking.
A tutorial on configuring Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to operate without using cookies, addressing GDPR compliance concerns.
The provided content is not a blog article but a 404 error page with embedded analytics code.
A developer shares her top recommended Gatsby plugins for building and enhancing a personal developer blog, including analytics and SEO tools.
A developer shares their experience migrating personal projects to Netlify, focusing on domain management and a simpler, server-side analytics alternative to Google Analytics.
A guide to using Google Tag Manager to simplify managing analytics and marketing tags, reducing code changes and improving data flow.
A guide to understanding and setting up Google Analytics to track and analyze website traffic, from basic setup to advanced insights.
A developer shares technical insights on using Google Analytics filters and interpreting bounce rate data to improve a blog.
A guide to integrating Google Analytics reliably into a Webpack project using HTML partials, ensuring proper initialization and maintainability.
A technical guide on implementing Do Not Track (DNT) support for websites, covering both client-side and server-side checks.
Critique of using Google Analytics for site speed data, highlighting sampling flaws and recommending real user monitoring for accurate performance insights.
A guide to creating lightweight, scriptless social media share buttons with Google Analytics tracking for dynamic websites.
A blogger weighs the pros and cons of running ads, using their own traffic stats to analyze potential revenue and user experience impact.
Explains what Semalt is, why its crawlers appear as fake referrals in Google Analytics, and how to block them.
A technical guide on implementing Google Analytics in multi-tenant SaaS applications, covering tracking setup and reporting per tenant.