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Why Are Website Analytics So Complicated?
Remember when tracking who visited your website was a matter of counting lines of text in a file? In the early days of the Internet, web server logs were the gold standard for understanding audience behavior. When we first started providing web services to our community members and local businesses, we used analytics tools that scanned server logs to count how many visitors saw each page. The process was almost rudimentary but highly effective: a user clicked a link, the server recorded it, and we counted…
Kenneth
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Website Privacy Policies
More and more, jurisdictions around the world are creating new laws regulating the collection and use of personal information collected by websites. Many of these laws are well intentioned, designed to reign in Big Tech’s mass surveillance and abuse of privacy. What most people don’t realize is that these laws may apply to a personal blog or a small business website too. Personal information is very broadly defined. Anything from a name, email address, or even IP address is considered personal information. That means any website…
Kenneth
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Why Choose Open Source
As a consultant, I usually start by listening to what my client wants, and then work out a plan that will get them what they want. But there’s always more than one way to get to any destination. Just as often as not, my own opinions affect what I recommend. Is this just personal bias on my part, or are there good reasons for the preferences I have? Probably a little bit of both. But what follows is a brief overview of the rationale I use.…
Kenneth
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Hosting Options for 2026
Http Us helps businesses, organizations, and individuals make a strong impression on the Internet. Although what we do has significant overlap with website hosting companies, we are not in the business of hosting websites as a standalone product. We do host websites, though. When our clients want us to help them with a website, it’s not a one-and-done proposition for us. We understand that a website is a living and evolving project, not something like a sign or poster that you create once and never think…
Kenneth
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The WordPress Community is Strong and Growing
WordPress is the platform that powers roughly 43% of all websites around the world. By that statistic alone, it is clear that WordPress, the software, is not going anywhere anytime soon. But there have been concerns, in light of recent lawsuits among some of the largest corporations that have built their businesses around WordPress, that the platform or its community may be in trouble. This is not the case. WordPress is an open source project started by Mike Little and Matt Mullenweg. It developed into the…
Kenneth
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