Adding Your Buttondown Email Stats to Your Website

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I’ve been using Buttondown for almost a full year now (I blogged about the setup here). After having a few issues with Mailchimp and my newsletter, I was pleasantly surprised by how easy Buttondown was and how quick it was to set up. I ended up paying for it as I knew I’d end up paying for some solution and Buttondown worked great and wasn’t expensive. For a while now, I’ve had a custom-built stats page on my blog that’s primarily built for me. It reports on multiple different parts of my site and its biggest use is to let me quickly judge how well I’m keeping to my publishing schedule (a post a week). One stat it didn’t have that I’ve been checking... more →
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Using Netlify Edge and Blob Support to Investigate Website Traffic

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For some time now, I’ve relied on my Netlify Analytics report to keep track of how well my site is doing, what content is popular, and so forth. I was a Google Analytics user for over ten years, but when they updated the UI, I saw red every time I tried to use it. Netlify Analytics is super simple and quick. (My only real complaint is that it’s limited to 30 days, but I’ve got free access to the feature so I’m happy to not care about that.) I complement Netlify Analytics with GoatCounter as well. Netify’s analytics show much more traffic than Goat, and I figure the truth is somewhere in the middle, and again, I’m fine with that. What’s odd though is that... more →
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GNOME Maps App Now Lets Users Open Locations on the OpenStreetMap Website – Softpedia News (blog)

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Softpedia News (blog) GNOME Maps App Now Lets Users Open Locations on the OpenStreetMap WebsiteSoftpedia News (blog)Therefore, they are updating several core components and GNOME apps with new features and lots of bugfixes. Among these, we can mention today the GNOME Maps software, a Maps app for the GNOME desktop environment. GNOME Maps 3.19.2 is the … map app – Google News… more →
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