Privacy-First Analytics Techniques
Privacy-First Analytics Techniques Privacy-focused analytics means designing data collection with user rights in mind. You can still gain meaningful insights by focusing on what matters and using privacy-preserving methods. The goal is to understand how people use your site while limiting exposure of personal details. With careful planning, dashboards can be both useful to teams and respectful to visitors. Collect only what you need Data minimization is a core rule. Track event-level data sparingly and prefer aggregated metrics over raw logs. Avoid storing full user identifiers and use hashed or pseudonymized IDs when necessary. When details are required, keep them for a short time and purge as soon as possible. Example: for a blog, count page views, scroll depth, and conversions by page, not by individual user. ...