LynAlden on Nostr: After nearly a year of not checking any of my website analytics, I might take a ...

After nearly a year of not checking any of my website analytics, I might take a moment to actually reinstall some of them since they broke down a while ago.

What I learned was, I’m not locked in with my analytics. My analytics are locked in with me. I’m not even sure when they stopped functioning, since I didn’t care.

I literally don’t know how many people came to my website in the past six months other than “a lot”. I do know the number of paying members and my overall research revenue, but not the number of visitors to public pages as I used to.

So now that I don’t give a shit about my analytics anymore, I figure I might as well take the time to reinstall them and see what they are.

Feels like a line from Fight Club. Only once we lose something do we begin to care for it. In my randomness I randomly decided that it would be nice to know the number of readers per post again, after having spent a long time of not caring or measuring by accident and apathy.

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One of my to-do lists is to fix Google Analytics on my website since it broke down a few months ago while I was traveling.

Normally this is a crisis but I was too apathetic to care. I posted the best articles I could write and didn’t care for analytics.

Naturally I should get this back and setup, but I found it interesting that 1) I didn’t check the numbers for 6+ months anyway and 2) it broke and I didn’t care for my website in 3+ months, before ultimately now I was like “okay let’s get analytics back, holy shit.”