Update analytics to Plausible

[slifty]

Plausible seems great! Lets use it for our analytics.

[louh]

It should be noted that Plausible does have a monthly fee! https://plausible.io/#pricing

I'm all for it personally -- as I use it for the lightweight traffic monitoring for Streetmix -- but I'd like your thoughts on cost/benefit for BIF. One tangential consideration is that even when you're not paying for Google Analytics, you are the product they're collecting data on, so supporting alternatives with good business practices (afaik, and they are open source) has knock-on effects for existing in a healthier web ecosystem.

The alternative is self-hosting, which trades off the monthly fee with labor time to install and maintain.

[slifty]

We paid for it for a little while for TV kitchen and then stopped; I forget it we're using google analytics still, but 1000% agree let's take that shiz off regardless (better to have no analytics at all).

I personally am a fan of avoiding monthly fee stuff if at all possible, though there is something to be said about supporting FOSS products.

For something non-critical like this I'd be glad to toss it onto my NAS and have watchtower keep it up to date.

What do you think of having us start by removing GA, and then I can spend a cycle on the NAS setup and see how that goes?

[louh]

I think I wrote the earlier comment assuming that GA was in place, and I don't think I can find it in the website! Maybe it was already removed (or never actually installed?)