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== Analytics ==
<span class="problem">HERE GOES THE DESCRIPTION OF THE ISSUEWebsite analytics can be helpful for understanding traffic to your website, but can also be extremely intrusive to the privacy of your visitors. Google represents perhaps the worst example of this, as they not only track minute details about visitors and their behavior, but also combines this data with additional, extensive data they are sweeping up about individuals from their trackers across the web.</span>
== Replacements ==
<span class="intro">HERE GOES AN INTRODUCTION TO THE SOLUTIONSThe good news is that you can still use web analytics on your website without needlessly and grossly infringing on your visitors’ privacy. One of the most important steps you can take to respect your visitors' privacy is to self-host analytics data. Otherwise, using cloud analytics services which are privacy-oriented is still better than using Google Analytics.</span>
<h3 class="title entry solution-1">FontelloMatomo</h3><span class="link entry solution-1">http://fontellomatomo.comorg/</span><span class="description entry solution-1">Fontello Matomo is a collection of icons web analytics service that claims to be privacy-oriented. However, they enable Google integrations which undercuts this claim. Choose the self-hosting option and you can download your packagedo not integrate with Google.</span>
<h3 class="title entry solution-2">Font SquirrelAmplitude</h3><span class="link entry solution-2">https://wwwamplitude.fontsquirrelcom/</span><span class="entry solution-2 description">Amplitude is a rather standard web analytics service which is not very respectful of privacy. It is cloud-based, and while they claim not to share data with third-parties, they use Amazon Web Services' servers to store encrypted data. The service also buys third-party data, and the fact that their own website uses Google Analytics should indicate the lack of confidence they have in their own product.</span> <h3 class="title entry solution-3">Open Web Analytics</h3><span class="link entry solution-2">http://openwebanalytics.com/</span><span class="entry solution-2 description">Font Squirrel provides free font Open Web Analytics is an excellent option for those a little more comfortable with back-end development who want a fully-featured product. It is completely self-hosted.</span> <h3 class="title entry solution-4">Simple Analytics</h3><span class="link entry solution-2">https://simpleanalytics.io/</span><span class="entry solution-2 description">Simple Analytics is a strongly privacy-oriented analytics service which only tracks necessary traffic metrics. It is cloud-based, but does not store IP addresses and permits does not use cookies.</span> <h3 class="title entry solution-5">Fathom</h3><span class="link entry solution-2">https://usefathom.com/</span><span class="entry solution-2 description">Fathom is similar to download your local package of fontsSimple Analytics in that it does not collect unique identifiers. What it offers in addition is a free, self-hosted option which makes it even more privacy-friendly.</span>
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