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Paul Jarvis

Paul Jarvis is the co-founder of Fathom Analytics and the co-host of the Above Board podcast.

Published on
November 8, 2023

iOS 17 and link tracking: what marketers need to know

iOS 17 has a feature called "Link Tracking Protection". Let’s take a look at what it means for your marketing and linking to your website

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September 18, 2023

Why Fathom Analytics doesn’t have a free plan

Well, from the jump, we started Fathom Analytics to be very different from a typical tech company. Let’s dive into our vision, some radical transparency, and a little dash of disobedience to the norms that have failed regular internet users.

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August 21, 2023

How to collect analytics data from Meta’s Threads

Meta does not offer a Threads-specific referrer data, meaning you’ll have to track referral traffic from their platform via UTMs in Fathom Analytics (or any analytics software.)

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June 2, 2023

Can you still export Universal Analytics data?

Google is deleting your Universal Analytics data on July 1, 2024. This means you still have a lot of time to export your data from Google Analytics and import it into Fathom Analytics.

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May 3, 2023

Our Google Analytics Importer (UA + GA4) is now available

It’s official; you can now import your historical Google Analytics data from Universal Analytics and GA4 into Fathom!

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March 1, 2023

Unique Visitors in Google Analytics: All You Need To Know

Learn everything about unique visitors in Google Analytics 4, including their definition, identification, limitations, and where to find the data.

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February 28, 2023

Engagement Rate in Google Analytics 4: All You Need To Know

What is engagement rate in Google Analytics 4, you ask? Let’s learn everything about it so we can make the best of this newly integrated event-based metric.

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February 22, 2023

What Do Website Analytics Allow You to Do?

Traffic analysis, conversions, user experience… What’s all the fuss about? What do website analytics allow you to do in reality? Learn more here.

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February 21, 2023

How to Add a User to Google Analytics

Learn how to add a user to Google Analytics in 5 simple steps by checking out this updated GA4 guide.

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February 18, 2023

How to Move Google Analytics Property to Another Account

Learn how to have more control over your GA4 properties by moving them. This guide shows you how to move Google Analytics property to another account easily.

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February 15, 2023

How to Track Visits to Website (The EASY Way)

Looking for an easy way to track visits to website without complexity and learning curve? In this guide, we will show you how you can start visitor tracking in no time.

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February 14, 2023

Web Analytics Metrics You Should Use to Win More Customers

Let’s use data-driven approach to boost your website! Check out the top 11 web analytics metrics that you should use to win more customers.

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February 10, 2023

Google Analytics Real-Time Not Working? Here’s Fix

Is Google Analytics Real-Time not working? Don’t worry - we know how to fix it. Read this post to check the possible causes and solutions for RT Report Errors in GA4.

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February 9, 2023

How to Delete Google Analytics Account

Tired of Google Analytics and looking for a change? Learn how to delete Google Analytics account entirely by following these steps.

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February 8, 2023

How to Track Button Clicks in Google Analytics 4

Want to track button clicks in Google Analytics? Learn everything about Google Analytics button click tracking with this guide.

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February 7, 2023

GA4 Migration: Step-by-Step UA to GA4 Transition Guide

Overwhelmed by the imminent UA to GA4 migration? This guide shows you how to move from UA to GA4 in easy and digestible steps.

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February 2, 2023

GA4 vs Universal Analytics: Differences & Comparison

It’s time to move from Universal Analytics to Google Analytics 4. To help you with this, let’s compare GA4 vs Universal Analytics & clarify key differences.

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February 1, 2023

How to Create Events in GA4 via User Interface

Google Analytics helps you to have more information related to your users. Learn how to create events in GA4 easily here.

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January 31, 2023

Google Analytics Not Showing Data? Here’s Fix

Why is Google Analytics not showing data? Is there something wrong with your Google Analytics account? Let’s go through possible causes and a few solutions.

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January 30, 2023

What Data Does Google Analytics Prohibit Collecting?

If you are using Google Analytics, it is time to value your user’s privacy. What data does Google Analytics prohibit collecting? Learn it here.

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January 2, 2023

Your privacy resolutions for 2023

Whatever your reason for wanting to put a bit more focus into digital privacy in this new year, it’s best to keep a few simple things in mind.

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Published on
November 7, 2022

Filter your dashboard by event completions

Our most requested feature has been launched: you can now filter your dashboard by event completions!

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October 25, 2022

What does Google know about me?

There’s a lot of us who use Google as part of our daily lives, but how much do they know about us? What information do they record and what do we have to hide?

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August 9, 2022

Best practices for promoting your affiliate links

Affiliate marketing isn’t just passive income. As in, you can’t sign up for an affiliate account and watch the money roll in from your private yacht (if only). The reality is that there’s some work involved to build audience and trust.

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May 10, 2022

The problem with data brokers: targeted ads and your privacy

Big Tech companies deserve to be held accountable for privacy violations. But, there are also companies who operate away from the spotlight, who are just as culpable.

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April 14, 2022

Google Analytics is removing Universal Analytics and deleting all of your historical data

Luckily, Fathom has built a Universal Analytics + GA4 importer to migrate your Google Analytics data from being gone forever.

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March 29, 2022

Website analytics that matter (and why they matter)

Here’s our quick guide to what website analytics matter, why they matter, and how we can use those metrics to make better business decisions.

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March 14, 2022

What happens when colossal growth happens to a slow-growth company

We had our best year ever, but it wasn't all smooth sailing.

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February 11, 2022

CNIL finds Google Analytics in breach of GDPR

The ruling states that Google Analytics does not protect EU visitor data sufficiently from US surveillance and spying.

Published on
February 10, 2022

How to use UTM Parameters

A UTM parameter is the text included in the URL to better understand where the traffic is coming from, and therefore, which content you’re sharing is the most relevant or best at converting to sales or leads.

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February 7, 2022

Our philosophy on spending money

It’s important to consider how much of your revenue you should be spending, what to be spending your money on, and how to best prioritize what expenses should before others.

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January 25, 2022

Google FLoC is dead; long live Google Topics

Amidst a ton of backlash from people who care about digital privacy, Google has announced it’s killing off FLoC and moving to something they’re calling Topics instead.

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January 24, 2022

Jack and Paul interviewed

Jack and Paul talk to Brian Casel about starting and growing Fathom Analytics.

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January 12, 2022

How to DeGoogle your business in 2022

Getting away from Big Tech isn’t easy. But let's look at how we can chip away at doing that with for our business (and our customers).

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Published on
November 18, 2021

The hidden risk of out-of-office emails

Why auto-responders can be bad for your privacy and the steps to avoid OOO privacy breaches.

Published on
October 12, 2021

Is Big Tech actually a big problem?

Did we all finally learn the truth about these companies, or was it something else that tipped the scales towards concerning once-heroes to be realized as villains?

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August 16, 2021

How Kim Kardashian turned a bootstrapped business into a venture-backed company

Why Carrd turned away from their bootstrapping roots and raised millions of dollars.

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July 27, 2021

New features in Fathom Analytics (video)

Fathom is simple, privacy-focused website analytics (a Google Analytics alternative). Here are a few new features we’ve added recently.

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July 7, 2021

Let’s make surveillance-based advertising illegal

Fathom and other privacy-focused companies signed the following letter on Wednesday, July 7th, to EU and US regulators to encourage them to take action during legislative sessions and any relevant privacy discussions.

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June 29, 2021

Something’s new in Fathom… everything!

Check out our new release, full of features and refinements

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June 21, 2021

Privacy Stories: The Markup

The Markup is proving that a newsroom can be unbiased in its reporting, share how they came to the conclusions they’re making, and build awareness around complicated but essential issues.

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June 2, 2021

Why we prioritize support over sales in our SaaS business

We put significant effort into customer support: not just answering emails quickly and respectfully, but making sure we understand the problem to either solve it or figure out how we can do better in the future (building more features, better documentation, etc.)

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June 2, 2021

What is Google FLoC, and why it’s bad for your digital privacy

FLoC is a method to collect, summarize and sell your recent internet browsing activity.

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May 13, 2021

Privacy Stories: Sparktoro

Sparktoro identifies where an audience spends their time and attention (using public information on social media).

Published on
January 18, 2021

What’s the difference between digital privacy and online security?

Both digital privacy and online security are essential for all of us who use the internet. The only way we can be protected online is to ensure both are fully protected at all times.

Published on
December 30, 2020

Why digital privacy matters even more in 2021

Fathom Analytics cofounder: what we are tracking/collecting and why it’s important (or not important).

Published on
December 8, 2020

Privacy Stories: Fastmail

Fastmail has proven (over the long term), that charging a fair price for software can keep your business running and growing indefinitely.

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December 7, 2020

Designing a million dollar brand

Branding is also not just a logo. Branding is how people connect and feel about a company. Here’s how Fathom Analytics does it.

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November 18, 2020

Privacy stories: DuckDuckGo

DuckDuckGo has been leading the privacy-focused space since 2008 with their search engine.

Published on
November 2, 2020

Everyone has something to hide

In this article, Fathom Analytics cofounder explains why everyone should care about their privacy, not just privacy nerds like me.

Published on
October 28, 2020

Announcing Phantom Analyzer

Phantom Analyzer is a real-time website scanner to see what invisible creepers are lurking and collecting information about you online.

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October 12, 2020

Does targeted digital advertising work?

Does targeted digital advertising, including personalized ads that we're shown via Google or Facebook, actually work?

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July 24, 2020

The Schrems II Judgement (Privacy Shield invalidation)

The Court of Justice of the European Union (EUCJ) has ruled on the Privacy Shield certification for US businesses, effectively making it invalid as of July 16, 2020.

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July 20, 2020

SaaS lessons shared on the Framework podcast

Last month I joined Tom Creighton and Robert Hayes on the Framework show to chat about how Fathom Analytics works as a privacy-focused and fully self-funded software company.

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June 22, 2020

Fathom Analytics vs the competition

Fathom Analytics is simple to use, and fully respects the privacy of your website visitors. Let’s compare it to the competition (and Google Analytics).

Published on
June 18, 2020

20 years to overnight success

A detailed look at how to create a lasting and successful product.

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May 8, 2020

Custom domains, V2 and new embed code options

Custom domains and our tracking code are both now faster, easier and more redundant.

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May 4, 2020

Does removing Google Analytics hurt your search engine/SEO ranking?

The short answer is no, using Fathom instead of Google Analytics will not hurt your SEO ranking.

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April 28, 2020

What we’ve learned about digital privacy through a 1,500+ person survey

1,515 people participated and shared their fears and behaviours around digital privacy.

Published on
April 8, 2020

We must ban targeted advertising immediately

The solution to one of our most challenging privacy issues of today could have the simplest answer.

Published on
April 1, 2020

April Fools: Individual Person Tracking

Now Fathom customers don’t have to just rely on our speedy but anonymized and aggregate data for their website.

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Published on
March 15, 2020

Online privacy trends

With the help of a qualitative research company, I ran an online privacy trends survey with 1,500+ respondents.

Published on
March 1, 2020

No more spy pixels

I don’t know if you’ve opened or read my newsletter.

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Published on
February 17, 2020

My favourite digital privacy tools for 2020

The following is a list of privacy tools I’ve used and enjoy using to keep me as private as possible online.

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February 2, 2020

How to build wealth slowly

You don’t have to pick stocks or have huge swaths of money to start investing.

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January 22, 2020

How to talk to your client or boss about a switch to Fathom

We get it, your clients or boss may not have heard of Fathom Analytics yet, since we’re mostly popular in the privacy, blogging and SaaS space.

Published on
January 9, 2020

Online privacy statistics

Internet privacy statistics: here are some interesting facts and statistics from around the internet about protecting personal data and internet privacy.

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December 5, 2019

Make your website a black hole to big tech

Google doesn’t need to charge for Google Analytics, they get access to such a vast amount of our personal data. It’s one of the biggest tech monopolies ever.

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November 21, 2019

Get paid 25% lifetime commissions when you refer customers to Fathom Analytics

Introducing our new privacy-focused affiliate program for our simple analytics software.

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November 17, 2019

The enemy

I’ve noticed a concerning trend lately: small business owners who sell anything are being seen and labelled as the enemy by some folks online.

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November 16, 2019

See your Fathom dashboard inside your WordPress admin

By using Fathom Analytics for WordPress you can view your Fathom dashboard directly within your WordPress admin area

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November 13, 2019

Fathom Analytics now supports two-factor authentication (2FA)

In an ideal world, all passwords would be secret and unhackable...

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November 4, 2019

From almost shutting down to tripling our MRR

It’s hard to imagine that a year ago Fathom Analytics almost disappeared forever.

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March 20, 2019

Work like you’re driving

We’ve been sold the idea that notifications are always important and we should allow them to constantly distract us.

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March 10, 2019

Take back your online privacy

Create your own digital grab-and-go kit

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April 30, 2018

What is enough?

Exterior mindfulness (some call it minimalism) only works when we solve for enough.

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March 3, 2018

What’s the point of productivity?

If you succeed at maximum productivity, where will your own time and energy go?

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March 20, 2017

Four rules for a minimalist business

Minimalism isn’t just for people who want to live out of a backpack or cram their life into a tiny house. So what is a minimalist business, and why should we have one?

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October 17, 2016

I don’t actually care about growth

If this company needs business growth beyond the three of us, I’m out. I’m better at working than delegating work any way.

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September 21, 2015

There’s no such thing as a big break

Achievement is never the result of a single action, it’s the build-up of all of our actions.

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May 19, 2014

Find your rat people

For your creativity to support you, you need to find your 1%. Your rat people.

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April 2, 2014

Do what you love

Even as someone who works for myself and makes a living off of creativity, it’s not always fun and holding hands while letting the rays of sunshine wash over my face.

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January 10, 2014

No goals

I decided not to have any goals. Not a single one. Not then, not now. I still avoid them as much as possible, almost as much as I resist owning a suit and tie.

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September 1, 2013

When is the best time to create?

Creating great work is a numbers game. The more time we spend creating, the more likely we are to create something great.

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