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He runs a personal blog and that’s already great. I’m baffled by a few choices though. Why bothering with analytics, especially paid ones, if according to his screen the website does less than 50 visitors a day? That seems like an odd choice.

As for the cost, I mean, could a site like this be run for a lot less than that? Absolutely. But if he’s happy paying those money then who cares.

It’s certainly not a setup I’d personally recommend.

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At first I thought no way it can be so low, but 99.5k views since 2017 is indeed around 50 views per day. For 400 euros and all this effort... I get similar hits on a free neocities site with zero effort put into search indexing, styling, usability or promotion. Crazy how views add up, just looking at the 99k number I’d think it’s huge!

And if you look at the screenshot he shared, almost a third are hits on a single post which I assume was featured on HN and another good chunk are hits on the homepage. Those two combined are almost half of the total page views according to his stats.

So if you ignore those two, you're looking at ~20 page views a day.

$14/month for analytics on a site with that level of traffic sounds wild to me but again, it's not my money and if he's happy then that's all that matters.

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