<p>My new website is hosted on <a href="https://www.netlify.com">Netlify</a>, which is an <strong>awesome</strong> service for hosting static websites. Recently, <a href="https://www.netlify.com/blog/2019/07/10/netlify-analytics---accurate-insights-without-performance-impacts/">they launched an Analytics Platform</a> as an alternative to Google Analytics. My impressions of this new tool isn’t quite as enthusiastic as their service in general, but it does have some nice features.</p> <div style="text-align:center; margin-bottom: 1rem"> <img src="/assets/images/netlify_analytics_screenshot.png" alt="Netlify Analytics Screenshot"> </div> <h3 id="pros">Pros:</h3> <h5 id="server-side">Server Side</h5> <ul> <li>Can’t be blocked by Ad-Blockers</li> <li>Tracks requests of non-web-page assets like RSS feeds, images, etc</li> <li>No impact on your client side performance since there’s no Javascript library</li> </ul> <h5 id="privacy-centric">Privacy Centric</h5> <ul> <li>Isn’t connected to an ad network...</li> </ul>