News and updates from Fathom

Every few weeks we publish articles about Fathom Analytics news and features, as well as topics of interest about Laravel, and the changing privacy-focused business landscape. Old-school? Grab the RSS.

Written by humans, for humans. Every post is written by hand, without AI.

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Why we ditched DynamoDB

Why we ditched DynamoDB

After being very publicly excited about DynamoDB for over a year, we’ve now completely ditched it.

Making the world’s fastest analytics even faster

Making the world’s fastest analytics even faster

In this blog post, I’m going to tell you how I migrated close to one billion database rows with zero downtime, achieved a ~30% query speed increase, and took Fathom to the next level.

Kim Kardashian turned a small business into a VC-backed company

Kim Kardashian turned a small business into a VC-backed company

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

New features in Fathom Analytics (video)

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.

Let’s make surveillance-based advertising illegal

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.

Something’s new in Fathom… everything!

Something’s new in Fathom… everything!

Check out our new release, full of features and refinements

Privacy Stories: The Markup

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.

What is Google FLoC (it’s bad for your privacy)

What is Google FLoC (it’s bad for your privacy)

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

We prioritize support over sales in our business

We prioritize support over sales in our 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.)

Privacy Stories: Sparktoro

Privacy Stories: Sparktoro

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