id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt www-fastcompany-com-1041 Here are 3 privacy-focused alternatives to Google Analytics .html text/html 2073 152 73 It also provides Google Analytics, which helps other companies and individuals identify who visits their websites, along with a host of other information, like how much time you spend on a given site, where you came from, and even where you're located. And as Google has come under fire for a host of privacy scandals and consumers have grown wary of a general lack of privacy on the internet, a series of new startups has launched in the past few months to provide privacy-centric analytics, claiming not to collect any personal data and only display simple metrics like page views, referral websites, and screen sizes in clean, pared-down interfaces. The company also says that Google Analytics doesn't track any personally identifiable information, which includes things like names, phone numbers, mailing or email addresses, and geographical coordinates. While Simple Analytics and Fathom are both recent additions to the world of privacy-focused data analytics, 1.5% of the internet already uses an open-source, decentralized platform called Matomo, according to the company. ./cache/www-fastcompany-com-1041.html ./txt/www-fastcompany-com-1041.txt