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> JS blockers remove ~1/3 of your traffic stats

I'd love to hear more about this – could you elaborate? Any resources you can share to back it up? Thx!



Basically anyone who uses Firefox, or anyone who has uBlock, AdBlock, uMatrix, Purify, etc. the installed is invisible to JS-based analytics. They simply never load the GOogle Analytics, NewRelic, or whatever code as part of their “tracking protection”.

In financial services, we see about 15% higher unique users per day when analyzing HTTP logs versus Google Analytics. In fact, I’ve heard but not verified that GA now applies a “correction factor” to their stats to account for this.




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