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Do we have analytics around how much Lemmy traffic is on mobile vs desktop? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Inb4 "analytics" is a bad word in the fediverse, understandably so, but I ask because for one of the communities that I moderate, I noticed the banner image and icon image were nearly 20 MB each, so I replaced them with smaller versions (<1 MB each). On desktop w/ a fast wired connection, it's no biggie, but it's good practice anyway to minimize page weight, if for no other reason than to make the site more usable for people on slow or cellular connections.

I tried searching for traffic data about Lemmy, and the best I could find is this page on similarweb.com, which shows traffic broken out by country and referrals, among other things, but a breakout of mobile vs desktop appears to be locked behind a paywall.

Do we have any analytics on mobile vs desktop traffic for Lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

It could be interesting running Matomo Analytics on my Lemmy instance, with consent of course.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

The admin can inject a Plausible code to have some privacy respecting analytics

It's lightweight and can give you most of info you need (I guess)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Why are you assuming a desktop user has a fast connection?

There's still millions of people on slow ADSL/DSL connections, satellite, fixed wireless, and so on.

Don't use 20mb images when 100kb ones will suffice, good lord.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I replaced them with smaller versions (<1 MB each)

what the hell? that is still absurdly large for banner and icon, they should fit into 100 kB total.