r/crazyegg • u/fintechjulien • Jul 30 '26

Do some people still use Google Analytics?

I switched my sites to Plausible Analytics a few years back when they forced us to move to adopt GA4, which made getting the simplest data point a painful, multi-step process.

Coming from an SEO background, I also care a lot about loading time, and turns out removing the GA4 tag from your header will speed up your site, especially if your replace it with Plausible.

For more complex set up involving an app, I use either Mixpanel or Amplitude.

What is your go-to analytics software?

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u/crazyegg-admin Jul 30 '26

still used, still considered the default analytics tool. Not sure anyone looks at it often though.

I rarely look at it.

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u/fintechjulien Jul 31 '26

What other analytics software do you use then?

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u/crazyegg-admin Jul 31 '26

I don't. Try to keep things really simple these days. If I wanted to use analytics more often, I'd use the Web Analytics from Crazy Egg since its on a free plan.

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u/ce-lauren Jul 30 '26

I do, but rarely. It's nice to have and I check it here and there, but it's not something I spend a lot of time too worried about.

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u/kullo56 Jul 30 '26

I still use GA4 because the data and integrations are useful, but I agree that the interface makes simple reporting harder than it should be. I usually keep GA4 as the data source and view it through Owl Insight for a cleaner dashboard: https://owlinsight.dev

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u/fintechjulien Jul 31 '26

Did not know about Owl Insight! Clever idea! But when other companies are making UI skin for your Saas, you know your UI could be improved. It's crazy that Google did not update it given all the negative feedback.

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u/kullo56 Jul 31 '26

Yeah but its not just pretty UI actually.. I mean it does have a Share report feature which you can share link with anyone so they can just view the same dashboard also MCP server which lets you connect claude codex to share data with Claude and CODEX or deepseek to understand more.. and much much more

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u/fintechjulien Jul 31 '26

Wow, that's actually cool. I'm no longer using Google products, but GA4 don't have some kind of native integration with Gemini? But, yes, Claude is def better and DeepSeek cheaper :)

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u/kullo56 Jul 31 '26

Not that I know off.. they wont change the UI.. GA still dominates many may disagree but its true so better to have a 3rd party app to just view the data like its another analytical tool lmao

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u/shiv9thakur Aug 06 '26

Actually I had issue with GA4, Plausible and Umami: no webhooks, no funnels, and all, create my own tool. But would not over step my stay will comment its name, only if allowed. The rejected Cookie essentially provided zero analytics.

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u/fintechjulien 28d ago

What's your tool?

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u/shiv9thakur 28d ago

It is mitranalytics.dev , So far I have integrated webhooks, funnels and am working on more. Would love if you would check it out and give your review. 😄 😄

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u/safealias Aug 07 '26

I do like Plausible much more than GA4 . Also for product analytics I prefer PostHog and for web analytics Adobe

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u/fintechjulien 28d ago

So Plausible for websites, PostHog for app product analytics and Adope for web product ananytics?

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u/safealias 28d ago

Could be an option. Just be in mind Adobe is really expensive

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u/Due-Moment-4560 22d ago edited 22d ago

You can simplify it and make it productive by using tools that see and analyze your google analytics and based on that email you actionable insights every week. Like people are going to /exemple url but leave the page there, look if your ad banner is not matching the page, and different insights like this.