Flying blind

No more analytics for me! After moving my blog, I thought I’d be using Cloudflare’s analytics, which are semi-built-in and purport to be privacy-first and lightweight. But when I went to set them up, I learned they’re not available for static sites like mine. I can guess why that might make sense for static content that’s just cached in an edge network. I took a look at other privacy-focused offerings and even tried one out briefly, but I decided against them. Why not First, I really don’t want to add any JavaScript to this site. Right now, when you hit my home page and inspect the network requests, there’s only one request: Name Domain Type Transfer Size Time sals.place sals.place document 4.07 KB 26.7ms That’s a thing of beauty to me. An ideal of sorts. I don’t want to muddy it up unless I have to. The question, then, is whether I need analytics. And the answer is, of course I don’t! I did enjoy perusing the analytics in Bear Blog. But are they important? Are they actionable? Does…