The CSS tracker is as useful as server log-based analytics. If that is the information you need, cool.
But JS trackers are so much more. Time spent on the website, scroll depth, screen sizes, some limited and compliant and yet useful unique sessions, those things cannot be achieved without some (simple) JS.
Server side, JS, CSS... No one size fits all.
Wide Angle Analytics has strong privacy, DNT support, an opt-out mechanism, EU cloud, compliance documentation, and full process adherence. Employs non-reversible short-lived sessions that still give you good tracking. Combine it with custom domain or first-party API calls and you get near 100% data accuracy.
The CSS tracker is as useful as server log-based analytics.
It is not. Have you read the article?
The whole point of the CSS approach is to weed out user agents which are not doing mouse hover on the body events. You can't see that from server logs.
But JS trackers are so much more. Time spent on the website, scroll depth, screen sizes, some limited and compliant and yet useful unique sessions, those things cannot be achieved without some (simple) JS.
Server side, JS, CSS... No one size fits all.
Wide Angle Analytics has strong privacy, DNT support, an opt-out mechanism, EU cloud, compliance documentation, and full process adherence. Employs non-reversible short-lived sessions that still give you good tracking. Combine it with custom domain or first-party API calls and you get near 100% data accuracy.