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Analytics Without Google Analytics (or Any Third-Party Tracker)
Building First-Party Analytics: No Google, No Plausible, No Cookie Banner I run my blog on Next.js, Go, Postgres, and Redis. No third-party trackers. Here's how a fire-and-forget event pipeline (Browser -> Go API -> Redis queue -> Postgres) gives me page views, scroll depth, read time, and referrers without shipping a single tracking script to readers. Plus: the PgBouncer + prepared statements bug that took down my overview endpoint, and how I built email notifications.
August 8, 2026·3 min read