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Volument
Company blog · volument.com/blogwebdata
Volument is the company blog at volument.com, writing about web and data. Since 2018, 22 different Hacker News readers have linked it 94 times, most often “Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-04-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 32 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
Linked almost entirely by Volument staff promoting their analytics product. The linked posts cover analytics problems, cookie and GDPR privacy, sendBeacon, A/B testing, and SPA performance. No commenter judges the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 32 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Insight-led web analytics
Most-linked posts?
- Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2021-05-12
- Large data study: Navigator.sendBeacon() is broken4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-12-17
- Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics3 people · 11 mentions · first linked 2019-05-29
- /learn/data-privacy3 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2020-11-03
- Future of website analytics and A/B testing3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-06-07
- SPA – Likely the biggest website performance booster2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-01-01
- Replacing MailChimp, Disqus, and HubSpot with a Simple CRUD2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-16
- The pain of a successful Hacker News launch2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-07
- Google Analytics vs. Volument2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-06-14
- How to make a fast website (in 2020)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-09
What Hacker News says?
https://volument.com might be a good pick since it focuses strictly on conversion optimization. It attempts to measure the more general conversion flow, known as the AIDA funnel (awareness, interest, desire, and action).
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on “Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics”Submitted Minimalism – An undervalued development skill as a story · 506 points
HN discussionHere's one we are working on: https://volument.com — it focuses on conversion optimization.
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on “Umami: Self-hosted open-source alternative to Google Analytics”Submitted Show HN: Volument – A new take on website analytics as a story · 88 points
HN discussionIn theory the correct way to send analytics when leaving the page is via navigator.sendBeacon, although it's not clear how reliable it is: https://volument.com/blog/sendbeacon-is-broken (note: read the comments for some rebuttals to the article)
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on “Google Analytics: Stop feeding the beast”Submitted Show HN: Volument – Our take on website analytics as a story · 67 points
HN discussionHere's how Volument works: https://volument.com/learn/volument-data-model A/B testing in Volument is quite different from, say Optimizely. You can compare a lot of things in apples-to-apples fashion: landing pages, inner pages, market segments, campaigns, site versions, etc. And you can compare both how much traction something generates, or how engaging a page is. The causation thing is just something we measure. We…
Comment linking /learn/volument-data-model
on “Minimalism – An undervalued development skill”Submitted The pain of a successful Hacker News launch as a story · 27 points
HN discussionHere's new blog post about a powerful way to make your website faster. https://volument.com/blog/spa-the-biggest-website-performanc...
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on “Minimalism – An undervalued development skill”Submitted Show HN: Baretest – A Minimalistic Alternative to Jest as a story · 18 points
HN discussionHere's new blog post about a powerful way to make your website faster. https://volument.com/blog/spa-the-biggest-website-performanc...
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on “Minimalism – An undervalued development skill”- l0 · 2021-06-12
Submitted Dieter Rams: 10 principles for good design as a story · 16 points
HN discussion First and foremost: beautiful and performant website. I don't understand how exactly the Volument product actually performs A/B testing (or distinguishes between different variants). The only code docs [0] I've found are very, very light on details and doesn't mention how the active variant is detected. To be fair, the product hasn't launched yet so perhaps the docs are currently internal-only. That being said, very…
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on “Minimalism – An undervalued development skill”Submitted Rebuilding Google Analytics (and your growth) as a story · 10 points
HN discussionThe link for the Disqus bullet (to try your alternative commenting system at the bottom of the page) is broken. It points to: https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-de... ... but what you want is: https://volument.com/blog/minimalism-the-most-undervalued-de... Two things suggest you've still got some work to do cutting out the crap: 1. The commenting widget manages to foil my ability to select tex…
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on “Minimalism – An undervalued development skill”Submitted Show HN: Bareserver – Express.js Alternative for Minimalists as a story · 9 points
HN discussionVolument | https://volument.com | Founding growth manager | Remote / Hybrid (Finland) | Full-time Volument is a unique, privacy-friendly website analytics fighting for a better Internet. We are looking for a product-led growth manager to lead or growth strategy and help us disrupt the web analytics industry. Here's a chance to make a big impact: we're a pre-seed startup on our way to the next funding stage. Prior ex…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2022)”Submitted Ditching HubSpot – why we built our CRM from scratch as a story · 9 points
HN discussionHey. Founder of Volument[1] here. We consulted EU law specialists on this particular matter. You are right: you definitely need a cookie banner when you store or process PII data. But GDPR is just an extension to ePrivacy, which says that you also need the cookie banner when any of the device information is accessed (such as the browser URL) for non-essential purposes. The ePrivacy is just a _directive_ and doesn't…
Comment linking /learn/data-privacy
on “We made our SaaS home page cookie-free”Submitted The pain of a successful Hacker News launch as a story · 8 points
HN discussionCookies are not an issue for GDPR, it's all about respecting users' privacy. In fact you can freely store anonymous data to cookies, localStorage, and sessionStorage without issues. The problem comes when you are dealing with personally identifiable information such as permanent identifiers. You definitely need a "cookie banner" when using Simple Analytics, Fathom, or Plausible. Any service that accesses the device…
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on “We made our SaaS home page cookie-free”Submitted The Power of Simple CRUD as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVolument | Remote (Helsinki) | Full-time | https://volument.com Volument is privacy-friendly analytics for a modern marketer. We're looking for a technical writer to develop our narrative and to create high-quality technical content. Please email: tero@volument.com Eager to talk with you! Thanks.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2021)”- l0 · 2020-01-09
Submitted How to make a fast website (in 2020) as a story · 7 points
HN discussion Volument Inc. | Vue developer | Full-time | Remote | Helsinki/Finland We're building a privacy-friendly alternative to Google Analytics that focuses on insights. We're looking for an experienced Vue- developer to lead the frontend team. More information here: https://volument.com/wanted-frontend-developer Please contact tero@volument.com
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2022)”Submitted Show HN: Volument is a new approach to analytics: measure growth as a story · 7 points
HN discussionVolument Inc. | Frontend developer | Full-time | Remote | Helsinki/Finland We're building privacy-first website analytics that focuses on user experience. We're looking for an experienced frontend developer with a bias to a Vue-style approach. Your task is to take over our analytics frontend. Here's why we do this: https://volument.com/blog/why-website-analytics-must-change We're a venture-funded startup. The office…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2022)”Submitted Bareserver – Express.js Alternative for Minimalists as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI agree to this. In fact — product/market fit can be measured from the traffic by studying the user experience and frequency of visits. We just launched a product that can do this: https://volument.com/product-market-fit
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on “Y Combinator CEO: “The True Test of Product-Market Fit Is 'Drowning in Demand'””Submitted SPA – Likely the biggest website performance booster as a story · 5 points
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