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 One of my to-do lists is to fix Google Analytics on my website since it broke down a few months ago while I was traveling.

Normally this is a crisis but I was too apathetic to care. I posted the best articles I could write and didn’t care for analytics.

Naturally I should get this back and setup, but I found it interesting that 1) I didn’t check the numbers for 6+ months anyway and 2) it broke and I didn’t care for my website in 3+ months, before ultimately now I was like “okay let’s get analytics back, holy shit.” 
 Same, Google doing Google things by breaking Analytics for almost everyone. Probably will make the switch to another Analytics tool. 
 Google? Seriously?!
There's got to be better and more freedom respecting alternatives out there.
I block all traffic to and from Google, nad hve been doing so for at least 10 years. 
 There are open source alternatives for tracking 
 what phone do you use? 
 Second-hand Sony Xperia running Sailfish 4.6 
 Might I recommend this for WordPress? I've used it, it's really simple and both open source and privacy friendly. 
https://wordpress.org/plugins/koko-analytics/ 
 A nice alternative - https://plausible.io/ 
 True. Don’t rely on analytics: you can’t fatten a pig by weighing it every day.