When you deploy a custom analytics package or any traffic-monitoring tool, your expectations are usually modest: a few hits from friends, maybe your mom, or an occasional lost translator bot. But after the server runs for a couple of days, the realit...

Over the past year, developing laravel-visit-analytics has evolved from a simple experiment into a significant engineering challenge. When standard analytics tools failed to meet my requirements for GDPR/DSGVO compliance and data accuracy, I realized...

Why Not Google Analytics? Or why I love reinventing the wheel To be honest, this wasn't an easy call. I’ve been in development for quite a while and had grown accustomed to GA. What could be simpler: you slap a script with your ID onto the site, an...