You might not need analytics
Do you have a personal website, webpage, blog, microblog, macroblog, just-right-blog, digital garden, link dump, exocortex, wiki, tiddlywiki, tiddlydum, higitus figitus or bibbidi-bobbidi-boo?
Then you might not need analytics.
Analytics might help if you're running a business or if you're trying to make money off, or directly on, the website. They help you make decisions to drive up engagement, or, I don't know, other things that one does with analytics. Fiddle with this, tweak the position of that, A/B test the flow.
If you're not running a business, then you might not need analytics. I would go as far as saying you shouldn't use analytics.
Say you have a blog: what good does it do you to learn that one post was read more times than the other? That the one thing you spent a long time researching, rewriting, and revising didn't do as well as the one you banged out in 5 minutes?
If you start to worry about your audience to the point where you're willing to change how often you write or what you write about, then you've lost the way. Personal websites, and personal blogs, are all about self-expression without compromise. You're in it for yourself, everyone else is just along for the ride.
My challenge to you: disable your analytics. Don't track anything. Write, post, move on to the next one, and keep going. Sometimes, someone will reply to you by email, or leave a comment if you have the means to do so. That will be more meaningful than a number that carries no feelings, no back and forth, no meaningful human connection.
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