No Tracking Here

February 6, 2011

I’m on a bit of a privacy kick lately and I’ve decided to remove the tracking components from my site. I was at one point using Google Analytics, but dropped that in favor of Sean Inman’s Mint. I have since removed Mint from my site. A nice side benefit from this is that I was able to switch my site’s server type back to static. It’s cheaper that way.

It was fun for a while to see how the few people who were coming to my site got here, but I don’t really care to know. I think it will help me to write more for myself as well, as I won’t be influenced by the more popular posts. And on top of that, there will be one less thing for me to obsess over.

However, if I enable comments on a post, I’ll still get a sense of which ones are more popular. That’s assuming that anyone chooses to add a comment. I don’t see this as a privacy violation though, because the commenter is willingly submitting information, whereas with tracking scripts, the visitor may not know information about them is being recorded.