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Something new to keep your eye on: https://volument.com Generates insights. Privacy-friendly.

Here's one we are working on: https://volument.com — it focuses on conversion optimization.

I read both pages, and I think they do a very good job of explaining the problem part. I don't think they do as good a job of explaining what exactly is the value Volument brings. As an other commenter pointed, it's not clear whether the images in https://volument.com/learn/how-volument-works are actual screenshots of the product running or just there to clarify the points, and if they are not screens of the product I'm left with no screen of what exactly will be the product. To me, it does feel a bit like when you're interviewing someone for a position, and they're not able to really separate their own contribution from what their team achieved. Just my 2 cents though, I wish you the best :-)

GA is overwhelming. I’ve seen how people open their GA dashboards and are paralyzed by the sheer amount of information. Now, Google is forcing all their users to GA4, which is even more complicated than Universal Analytics. So yeah, GA has two big problems: information overflow and privacy. What’s interesting, though, is that most analytics tools still violate European privacy laws. The GDPR is straightforward: if you collect or process personal data, you need user consent. So, if your tracker is anonymous, that should be fine. But, the ePrivacy Directive also applies to web analytics software. Article 5.3. states: "Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent…" In other words, every analytics tool needs user consent. More about that topic here: https://volument.com/comply-with-data-privacy-laws

A year ago, I found Volument's mini-manifesto "Minimalism: an undervalued development skill"[1] on HN (discussion [2]) and it resonated hard with me. I worked in Marketing and community at DigitalOcean over five years as it scaled. I had contributed to a hodge-podge of overlapping analytics tools running in managed chaos at my company, I had watched another team get hoodwinked into a multi-year deal with a big analytics/testing tool that had been in development for months without yielding a single test, I had seen people throughout the company struggle to find answers to basic analytics questions due to the complexity of the tool stack. I got a Volument pilot going on the public part of our site, and while the scale really strained the Volument infrastructure, I absolutely loved the opinionated and simple interface. It was like what Netlify did for static-site hosting, applied to analytics. Volument took the 3000 views and features of a legacy provider like GA and just figured out what people actually need and boiled it down to 5. I've changed companies since, but am excited to test this new version at my current company. The people at Volument are super-great and responsive, and if the new one is anything like the original it's going to be very useful. [1] https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-development-… [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21871491

Currently yes. Webhooks and S3-compliant data export is on our roadmap: https://volument.com/roadmap/

After three years of intense work and a year-long beta, including sites from Digital Ocean, Shopify, and Flowplayer: Volument is finally open for everyone. Here's the story: https://volument.com/blog/volument-launches

Plausible tracks visitors without their permission. This is illegal in Europe where notice or consent or is needed, regardless of how cookies are used/not used. More info: https://volument.com/learn/data-privacy Note that I work at Volument.

In theory the correct way to send analytics when leaving the page is via navigator.sendBeacon, although it's not clear how reliable it is: https://volument.com/blog/sendbeacon-is-broken (note: read the comments for some rebuttals to the article)

Here's new blog post about a powerful way to make your website faster. https://volument.com/blog/spa-the-biggest-website-performance-booster

First and foremost: beautiful and performant website. I don't understand how exactly the Volument product actually performs A/B testing (or distinguishes between different variants). The only code docs [0] I've found are very, very light on details and doesn't mention how the active variant is detected. To be fair, the product hasn't launched yet so perhaps the docs are currently internal-only. That being said, very interesting idea of linking engagement to eventual conversion to get "results" faster. It certainly seems reasonable that there is a causation relationship (increased engagement, e.g. more scrolling and longer visit duration, eventually leading to increased conversion), but I don't know how statistically valid that is. [0]: https://volument.com/learn/client-api

The link for the Disqus bullet (to try your alternative commenting system at the bottom of the page) is broken. It points to: https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-development-… ... but what you want is: https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-development-… Two things suggest you've still got some work to do cutting out the crap: 1. The commenting widget manages to foil my ability to select text and keep it selected. 2. If I disable JS (see #1) and reload the page, I just see one big blob of gray-green-blue.

Hey Play6, Thank you! :) Here you can learn the problem in general analytics: https://volument.com/learn/problems-in-general-analytics

https://volument.com/learn/user-privacy on Firefox