Privacy Friendly Analytics v0.1

Version: 0.1

Project Info

Privacy Friendly Analytics is a glorified hit-counter - it's designed to capture details that are useful for improving delivery without capturing user-specific information.

The original design/rationale can be found in the post Designing Privacy Friendly Analytics

Release Notes

Version 0.1 implements the basic functionality of PF Analytics

  • Capture calling page path and domain
  • Capture referrer info where available
  • Capture browsing platform (e.g. Linux x86)
  • Capture user's timezone
  • Generate a short-lived session identifier to prevent write collisions
  • Randomly rotate that identifier
  • Integrate with videos.bentasker.co.uk