Quote:
Originally Posted by u-Bob
Anything but Google Analytics. From an SEO pint of view, you always try to control and manipulate the data Google has about your sites. handing them raw traffic data like that is not a good idea.
|
I used to think like this - and I also avoid Google Analytics for that very reason.
However, by coincidence I found out that Google actually knows much more about our traffic, than they should.
A
default setting in Firefox makes the browser contact Google in the background for every page we visit.
In Firefox Options -> Security you find these two options:
"Block reported attack sites"
"Block reported web forgeries"
These two useful services query Google servers to protect us from harmful attack sites.
In about
:config they are found under "safebrowsing".
If you have a program like TCPView running (or netstat) you will often discover some connections being made to some sub-domains under 1e100.net - That's Google's domain. The scientific notation of a googol.
Then we have all people who use Chrome as their browser. That one doesn't need more explanation.
I am afraid that Google already knows way too much.