Kudos to the author. I think if every technical person with a blog takes the time to reevaluate it will be a good start.
Over the years I've reworked my own blog to not use any third party dependencies (bootstrap, jquery, etc.). And use very few images. My last thing is to get rid of Google Analytics, which piwik (now matomo) has failed to replace but hope is not lost. I also discovered that GA does not respect DoNotTrack, so I modified it to not load in this case.
At the very least, all HNers with blogs should concider doing this.
I don't have any analytics on my blog. Can you explain the benefit of GA over Piwik? What genuinely useful insights does GA give you (specifically for a personal blog) that Piwik does not? (I assume that the info from Piwik would be similar to what you get from computing stats from the web server access log.)
It's not the insights, I think piwik got that part right. The problem is when traffic increased piwik and the server it was on could no longer support it.
Over the years I've reworked my own blog to not use any third party dependencies (bootstrap, jquery, etc.). And use very few images. My last thing is to get rid of Google Analytics, which piwik (now matomo) has failed to replace but hope is not lost. I also discovered that GA does not respect DoNotTrack, so I modified it to not load in this case.
At the very least, all HNers with blogs should concider doing this.