A quick spin through Segment.com's list of integrations show a TON of GA-like services. Anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to GA that provides the same type of data without the sampling / bloat / etc of GA?
Hey Noah, an unfortunate side effect of GA's power is its steeper learning curve. A new driver sitting in a Ferrari might consider all the paddle shifters and gauges to be "bloat," but in the right hands the car is a beast ...
Don't get me wrong, I do wish Google spent more time improving GA, but I think many of the alternatives sacrifice too much just to be beginner-friendly. What we need is a Tesla for web analytics.
Agreed - I've used GA for many years and it's indeed extremely powerful (especially for a free tool). And the tradeoff is fair, I think -- Google gives us a ton of power to analyze site data in exchange for, well, Google being able to analyze site data :) But it does take a bit of a kitchen-sink approach to things.
I guess I should rephrase my question to be less broad -- of the companies that purport to be competitive, do any of them do a particularly good job (even if just at subsets of GA's features)?
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A quick spin through Segment.com's list of integrations show a TON of GA-like services. Anyone have any suggestions for an alternative to GA that provides the same type of data without the sampling / bloat / etc of GA?
Hey Noah, an unfortunate side effect of GA's power is its steeper learning curve. A new driver sitting in a Ferrari might consider all the paddle shifters and gauges to be "bloat," but in the right hands the car is a beast ...
Don't get me wrong, I do wish Google spent more time improving GA, but I think many of the alternatives sacrifice too much just to be beginner-friendly. What we need is a Tesla for web analytics.
Agreed - I've used GA for many years and it's indeed extremely powerful (especially for a free tool). And the tradeoff is fair, I think -- Google gives us a ton of power to analyze site data in exchange for, well, Google being able to analyze site data :) But it does take a bit of a kitchen-sink approach to things.
I guess I should rephrase my question to be less broad -- of the companies that purport to be competitive, do any of them do a particularly good job (even if just at subsets of GA's features)?