Simple digital privacy tips
Advice for making your online life a little more private including recommendations for privacy-focussed web browsers, email, search engines, analytics and more!
Read Simple digital privacy tips7 ways your website might be abusing your customers’ personal data
How big tech companies stopped data mining and started handing out shovels instead.
Read 7 ways your website might be abusing your customers’ personal dataUnderstanding your website Analytics
Website analytics is a very useful tool for studying how people use your website, but the onslaught of data can be intimidating. This guide will walk you through the key analytics metrics and how to interpret them, including page views, bounce rates and acquisition stats.
Read Understanding your website AnalyticsQuality over quantity
Is it time to stop endlessly chasing bigger numbers and instead focus on designing your website for your right audience rather than a mass audience?
Read Quality over quantityEthical Alternatives to Google Products
Tips for reducing your use of Google products and the data they collect, including recommended privacy-focussed alternatives for Chrome, Google Search and Google Analytics.
Read Ethical Alternatives to Google ProductsFathom Analytics vs Google Analytics
My thoughts on switching to using Fathom; a simple, privacy focussed website analytics software that is an ethical alternative to Google Analytics.
Read Fathom Analytics vs Google AnalyticsThe weird nostalgic romance of deleting old emails
Clearing out your old emails is a great way to reduce your digital carbon footprint. Get ready for a trip down memory lane!
Read The weird nostalgic romance of deleting old emailsDigital Minimalism Part 1: The Digital Declutter
I’m exploring Cal Newport’s philosophy of Digital Minimalism using less technology with more purpose and none of the distractions.
Read Digital Minimalism Part 1: The Digital DeclutterNew adventures with an old phone
Everyone can do with a digital detox from time to time! Thoughts on why I’ve been going back to basics with a ‘dumb phone’ on evenings and weekends.
Read New adventures with an old phoneMy Social Dilemma
Join me as I don my tinfoil hat and watch The Social Dilemma, the terrifying documentary about the impact social media is having on society.
Read My Social Dilemma