Mar 8, 2023

Reviewing my Netlify Analytics

Thanks to Netlify Analytics I know to focus on writing how-to articles, but it has less data than I hoped.

Some context: Netlify provides analytics information for $9 per month per site. They offer data from server requests including page views, unique visitors, top locations, and sources.

The data varies greatly from client-side options like Google Analytics

The numbers:

My site received 38,000 page views from 13,000 unique visitors in the last 30 days
The top location was the United States, followed distantly by Germany, France, and China
The most popular page was a tool for looking up words by consonant-vowel patterns
The most popular content were how-to articles

Trade-offs: Netlify Analytics was easy to set up with an existing project — just one click after adding payment information. But it lacks comprehensive data for informed decision making.

I want to know how all of my pages are performing, but Netlify’s dashboard limits you to 15 results.
The inclusion of bot traffic add uncertainty to the numbers.

Takeaway: People are visiting this site for guides on completing a particular task. These are broken down into two categories: tutorials and debugging.

In order to create value for my readers, I’m going to focus this area
I expect more for $9/month and probably won’t continue the subscription

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