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Ask HN: What percentage of your website visitors block Google Analytics?

1 pointsby peterhartreealmost 9 years ago
I just did a quick analysis of my web server access logs and got a big surprise. I expected that 5-10% of visitors would be blocking Google Analytics, but the log analysis made me think it&#x27;s more like 50%.<p>Have you done a similar analysis? If so, I&#x27;d love to know:<p>1. What percentage of your website visitors were blocking Google Analytics?<p>2. What method did you use to get that figure?<p>3. What is your website&#x27;s target audience?<p>My own answers to these questions are below.<p>---<p>1. 50 - 55%<p>2. I took the &quot;Users&quot; figure from Google Analytics for a particular day, to get &quot;today&#x27;s unique visitors according to Google Analytics&quot;.<p>I loaded my nginx access logs for the same day into GoAccess. I took the &quot;Unique visitors per day - including spiders&quot; figure and subtracted the 5% or so of unique visitors whose browser type GoAccess listed as &quot;Crawlers&quot; [i]. That gave me a figure I&#x27;ll call &quot;today&#x27;s unique visitors according to GoAccess&quot;.<p>3. University students, graduates and young professionals.<p>[i] Presumably this doesn&#x27;t capture all non-human visitors. I&#x27;m not sure what further adjustment, if any, should be made here.

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