Website analytics
There loads of ways to monitor and record when visitors come to a website. There’s also a few key things to consider alongside being intentional about what you want, or need, to learn about the traffic.
Some considerations:
Privacy, GDPR, cookies acceptance requirements
Reporting on visitor volume, sessions (same visitor going to mulitple pages), pages that are viewed
Ease of seeing and exploring the data
User journeys, behaviour within a page, use of specific buttons or logging ‘events’
Spam and bot visits
Analytics providers:
Tinylytics: Small, simple and easy to use, GDPR compliant (no cookies acceptance required), includes uptime & content monitoring, built and run by a nice guy named Vincent.
Fathom: Privacy focused, GDPR compliant (no cookies acceptance required)
Google Analytics: free, powerful, complicated to explore, requires a cookies acceptance to be GDPR compliant
Cloudflare analytics: GDPR?
Hotjar: user journey heatmaps and videos, requires a cookies acceptance to be GDPR compliant