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Quantable Analytics
Company blog · quantable.com/blog · on HN as jhpackerdataweb
Quantable Analytics is the company blog at quantable.com, writing about data and web. Since 2016, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 23 times, most often “ChatGPT search prompts leak into Google Search Console”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
The linked post covers GDPR and how publishers are affected, including analytics. The comments are about ad blockers, privacy tools and Google Analytics data rather than the post's writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Analytics & Optimization
Most-linked posts?
- ChatGPT search prompts leak into Google Search Console3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-10-29
- What's Blocking Google Analytics Now?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-08-18
What Hacker News says?
Here's #2 running a pretty similar cocktail (ublock origin, umatrix, privacy badger, httpseverywhere, cookie autodelete and decentraleyes). There's dozens of us! Dozens! But more seriously, there's actually lots of us. You don't hear about us because we don't narcissistically post about it on facebook. We just block shitty software and move on with our lives. I have no stats for you though, because stats are usually…
Comment linking /analytics/how-many-users-block-google-analytics/
on “Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is”Submitted ChatGPT search prompts leak into Google Search Console as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> DAP gets its raw data from a Google Analytics account. A lot of adblockers also block GA. See [0], it's basically half of adblockers (by usage). Technically-savvy users are both more likely to use adblockers, and more likely to switch to Linux, and more likely to alter the default settings of their adblocker to make it block more stuff. Also privacy-aware users, counter-cultural users, etc. So the data is probably…
Comment linking /analytics/whats-blocking-google-analytics-now/
on “People keep flocking to Linux, not just to escape Windows”Submitted ChatGPT leaked conversations to Google Search console as a story · 8 points
HN discussionI recently wrote an article on this topic, focused on the power law dynamics that leave such a small amount of room at the top of the industry: https://www.quantable.com/analytics/power-laws-why-our-new-a... I don't personally think it's new vs. old as much as the power law distribution coupled with the fact that old music is more available and promoted than ever. Plus the algorithms are focused on giving us more of…
Comment linking /analytics/power-laws-why-our-new-album-wont-make-any-money/
on “'The Endless Refrain' asks: Do we even want new music anymore?”Submitted Yes, OpenAI Scrapes Google Search as a story · 6 points
HN discussionhttps://www.quantable.com/blog Analytics experiments and opinion, around 10 years of back deep dive articles -- mostly Google Analytics web performance, bots, SEO.
Comment linking /blog
on “Ask HN: Could you share your personal blog here?”Submitted More streams, but a dwindling number of pro musicians as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAs others have mentioned, the most popular simplified ones are: Cloudflare Web Analytics, Fathom, and Plausible. Cloudflare (as well as Simple Analytics) use only HTTP referrer to count visits, which makes them the most privacy-friendly but also limits what they can do in terms of tracking an individual session. Fathom and Plausible both use hashed IP and User-Agent, which allows for more functionality, though they…
Comment linking /analytics/google-analytics-alternatives/
on “Ask HN: Alternatives to Google Analytics in 2023”Submitted What's Blocking Google Analytics Now? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted How many users block Google Analytics, measured in Google Analytics as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Old Rules Are Dead as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The dueling truths of AI, both grift and revolution as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Outsider Thinking and the Age of AI as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted 94% of users prefer not to be tracked, so why do consent prompts exist? as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted In-browser AI image detection as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted With a 5x increase in Show HN, who sees what you build? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 70% of Top Sites Still Set Third Party Cookies as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted When Does Google Analytics Finish Processing Data? as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How Many People Use Incognito Mode? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Are We All So Bad at Math? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Startup Post-Mortem, Twenty-Five Years Later as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Testing Digital Nomadic Productivity as a story · 1 points
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