{"id":996,"date":"2009-11-16T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-16T23:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/~frers\/cgi-bin\/blosxom.cgi\/edv\/091116-end-of-sitemeter.html"},"modified":"2010-01-22T01:02:26","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T00:02:26","slug":"more-privacy-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"More privacy for you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For more than seven years I have used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemeter.com\" title=\"homepage of the web analysis service\">Sitemeter<\/a> to see and analyze the traffic to my website. The service was originally recommended to me by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schockwellenreiter.de\/\" title=\"check out his German blog - Der Schockwellenreiter\">J\u00f6rg Kantel<\/a>, but in recent years I grew more and more disenchanted by Sitemeter \u2013 they teamed up with different advertising partners, made their JavaScript more complex, and there is also the ongoing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.de\/search?ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=sitemeter%20privacy\">privacy related discussion<\/a>. In addition, because it could only count those visits that actually accessed the JavaScript code that is embedded into a <abbr title=\"HyperText Markup Language (website code)\">HTML<\/abbr> page, Sitemeter did not count those who would not activate the script. So the count missed out on those who block JavaScript and it also never counted access to the PDF, audio and video files that I host here.<br \/>\nIn spite of all of these disadvantages, there was no real alternative for me, since Google Analytics is even worse when it comes to data collection, and since I did not have access to the webserver logs. All of this changed a few months ago when zedat, <abbr title=\"Freie Universit\u00e4t Berlin\">FU<\/abbr>\u2019s <abbr title=\"Information Technology\">IT<\/abbr> unit made it possible to access the weblogs for the userpage that they host. Since that change, I have now and then experimented with this feature, and with the help of the nice staff at zedat, I was able to set up a working solution using cron jobs and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hping.org\/visitors\" title=\"website of the web log analysis application\">Visitors<\/a>. Although Visitors is somewhat dated and not as feature-rich as I would like, it is good enough to finally get rid of Sitemeter. (And installing\/using it does not require a lot of technical skills.)<br \/>\nSo beginning today, accessing my website will: 1. better preserve your privacy and 2. be faster, since my pages are now completely JavaScript free and since your browser won\u2019t have to access several different domains to load a single page. Win-win situation for you and me!<br \/>\nSitemeter\u2019s final count for this site was: 128,247 Visits and 193,571 Page Views.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than seven years I have used Sitemeter to see and analyze the traffic to my website. The service was originally recommended to me by J\u00f6rg Kantel, but in recent years I grew more and more disenchanted by Sitemeter \u2013 they teamed up with different advertising partners, made their JavaScript more complex, and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[50,23],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-log","tag-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2060,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/2060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/userpage.fu-berlin.de\/frers\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}