A simpler life without Google Analytics
I’m not here to say Google Analytics is “bad.” For many teams, it is the right tool: funnels, audiences, integrations, the whole story. The problem, at least for the kind of project this blog is, is that the power comes with weight—account sprawl, consent flows, and a UI that can feel like a second job. Sometimes you just want to know that someone read the post, without turning your hobby site into a mini data warehouse. ...