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jrowen on Feb 1, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: This Conversation Is Going Nowhere

Because even when websites were "bad," the web was still a successful platform with wide adoption. Google Analytics came about because the ecosystem was growing and thriving, not to save something that had failed to gain traction.

jkestelyn on Feb 1, 2018 [–]

So analytics are only useful for successful techs with wide adoption? I think many of those techs got that way because of analytics.

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